قَالَ فَقُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ كَثُرَ...
قَالَ فَقُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ كَثُرَ اسْتِحْثَاثُ الْمَنْصُورِ وَ اسْتِعْجَالُهُ إِيَّايَ وَ أَنْتَ تَدْعُو بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ الطَّوِيلِ مُتَمَهِّلًا كَأَنَّكَ لَمْ تَخْشَهُ He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ! The scolding by Al-Mansour has been a lot, and his hastening me, and you -asws supplicated with this lengthy supplication relaxed, as if you -asws did not fear him’.
قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي نَعَمْ قَدْ كُنْتُ أَدْعُو بِهِ بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ بِدُعَاءٍ لَا بُدَّ مِنْهُ فَأَمَّا الرَّكْعَتَانِ فَهُمَا صَلَاةُ الْغَدَاةِ خَفَّفْتُهُمَا وَ دَعَوْتُ بِذَلِكَ الدُّعَاءِ بَعْدَهُمَا He (the narrator) said, ‘He -asws said to me: ‘Yes. I -asws had supplicated with it after Salat Al-Fajr with a supplication there was not escape from it. As for the two Cycles Salat, these were the morning Salat.
I -asws had lightened these and supplicated with that supplication after them’. فَقُلْتُ لَهُ أَ مَا خِفْتَ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ وَ قَدْ أَعَدَّ لَكَ مَا أَعَدَّ قَالَ خِيفَةُ اللَّهِ دُونَ خِيفَتِهِ وَ كَانَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي صَدْرِي أَعْظَمَ مِنْهُ I said to him -asws , ‘Did you not fear Abu Ja’far (Al-Mansour), and he had prepared to you -asws what he had prepared?’ He -asws said; ‘I -asws feared Allah -azwj besides fearing him, and Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic was in my -asws chest, greater than him’.
قَالَ الرَّبِيعُ كَانَ فِي قَلْبِي مَا رَأَيْتُ مِنَ الْمَنْصُورِ وَ مِنْ غَضَبِهِ وَ خِيفَتِهِ عَلَى جَعْفَرٍ وَ مِنَ الْجَلَالَةِ لَهُ فِي سَاعَةٍ مَا لَمْ أَظُنُّهُ يَكُونُ فِي بَشَرٍ فَلَمَّا وَجَدْتُ مِنْهُ خَلْوَةً وَ طَيَّبَ نَفْسِي قُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَأَيْتُ مِنْكَ عَجَباً قَالَ مَا هُوَ Al-Rabie said, ‘There was in my heart, from what I had seen from Al-Mansour, and of his anger, and his frightening upon Ja’far -asws , and from the majesty to him -asws during a time I did not thing I would be in glad tidings.
When I found privacy from him and my soul felt good, I said, ‘O commander of the faithful!
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