When I was free...
When I was free, I went out to Ibn Ja’far to ask him about the man and how he could have entered I saw the doors being upon their state, closed, locked. I was surprised from that and said, ‘Perhaps there is a door over here and I don’t know’. فَأَنْبَهْتُ ابْنَ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَيِّمَ فَخَرَجَ إِلَى عِنْدِي مِنْ بَيْتِ الزَّيْتِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ وَ دُخُولِهِ فَقَالَ الْأَبْوَابُ مُقَفَّلَةٌ كَمَا تَرَى مَا فَتَحْتُهَا فَحَدَّثْتُهُ بِالْحَدِيثِ I woke up Ibn Ja’far the custodian.
He came out to me from the oil room. I asked him about the man and his entry. He said, ‘The doors are closed like what you see. I have not opened these!’ فَقَالَ هَذَا مَوْلَانَا صَاحِبُ الزَّمَانِ ص وَ قَدْ شَاهَدْتُهُ دَفَعَاتٍ فِي مِثْلِ هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ عِنْدَ خُلُوِّهَا مِنَ النَّاسِ I narrated to him with the narration. He said, ‘This is our Master, Master of the Time -ajfj , and I have witnessed him at times in a night similar to this at his -ajfj seclusion from the people’.
فَتَأَسَّفْتُ عَلَى مَا فَاتَنِي مِنْهُ وَ خَرَجْتُ عِنْدَ قُرْبِ الْفَجْرِ وَ قَصَدْتُ الْكَرْخَ إِلَى الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ مُسْتَتِراً فِيهِ فَمَا أَضْحَى النَّهَارَ إِلَّا وَ أَصْحَابُ ابْنِ الصَّالِحَانِ يَلْتَمِسُونَ لِقَائِي وَ يَسْأَلُونَ عَنِّي أَصْدِقَائِي وَ مَعَهُمْ أَمَانٌ مِنَ الْوَزِيرِ وَ رُقْعَةٌ بِخَطِّهِ فِيهَا كُلُّ جَمِيلٍ I regretted upon what had been missed by me from him -ajfj , and I went out close to the dawn and aimed to go to Al-Karkh to the very place which I had concealed in.
The day had not brightened except and companions of Al-Saliheen were seeking to meet me, and they were asking my friends about me, and with them was (a deed of) amnesty from the minister and a note wherein was all beautiful (good).
فَحَضَرْتُ مَعَ ثِقَةٍ مِنْ أَصْدِقَائِي عِنْدَهُ فَقَامَ وَ الْتَزَمَنِي وَ عَامَلَنِي بِمَا لَمْ أَعْهَدْهُ مِنْهُ وَ قَالَ انْتَهَتْ بِكَ الْحَالُ إِلَى أَنْ تَشْكُوَنِي إِلَى صَاحِبِ الزَّمَانِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ I presented with a trusted one of my friends in his (minister’s) presence. He stood up and hugged me and treated me in a manner I had not thought of from him, and he said, ‘The situation ended with you to the extent that you complained of me to Master of the Time -ajfj ?
May the Salawaat of Allah -azwj be upon him -ajfj ’. فَقُلْتُ قَدْ كَانَ مِنِّي دُعَاءٌ وَ مَسْأَلَةٌ I said, ‘It has happened from me, a supplication and a request’.
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