So, when we came to the dressing room, he -asws called for...

So, when we came to the dressing room, he -asws called for the incense burner so he -asws applied the incense vapour with it, then said: ‘Apply the incense O Murazam! I said, ‘The one who want that he takes his share, can he take it?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ali Bin Al Rayyan, (It has been narrated) from Ahmad Bin Abu Khalaf, a slave of Abu Al-Hassan -asws , and he ‑asws had bought his father, and his mother, and his brother, so he -asws had freed them, and he -asws had contracted Ahmad and made him his -asws butler.

So, Ahmad said, ‘When the wives of Abu Al-Hassan -asws incensed, they took a type from a type of Al-Saykhani date, unrefined dates, and the peels, so they would cast these upon the fire before the incense. So, when the dates smoked a little smoke, they threw the dates and burnt the incense from afterwards, and it tended to hand and be more remaining, and more aromatic for the vapour, and they used to instruct with these’.