I was increasingly surprised and in that day of mine...

I was increasingly surprised and in that day of mine, I did not cease to be worried, thinking regarding his -asws matter and the matter of my father, and what I had seen from him, until it was the night. \n And it was his norm that he would pray the evening Salat, then he would sit and look into what he needs from the matters and what he should be raising to the Sultan. When he considered and was seated, I came and sat in front of him. He said, \u2018O Ahmad!

Is there any request for you?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes, O father! If you allow, I shall ask you about it\u2019. He said, \u2018I am permitted for you, O my son, so say whatever you like!\u2019 \n I said, \u2018O father! Who is the man whom I -asws saw you at lunchtime doing with him -asws what you did, from the revering, and the honouring, and the respecting, and ransoming him -asws with yourself and your fathers?\u2019 He said, \u2018O my son! That is the son -asws of Al-Reza -asws .

That is an Imam -asws of the Rafizis (Shias)\u2019. \n He was silent for a while (then) he said, \u2018O my son!

If the caliphate were to decline from the Abbasid caliphs, no one from the clan of Hashim -as would be more rightful for it apart from this one, for this one deserves it due to his -asws merits, and his -asws chastity, and his -asws guidance, and his -asws self-maintenance, and his -asws ascetism, and his -asws worship, and his -asws beautiful mannerisms, and his -asws righteousness, and had you seen his -asws father -asws , you would have seen a man, majestic, noble, good, meritorious\u2019.

\n I increased in worries and thinking and rage against my father from what I had heard from him regarding him -asws , and there did not happen to be any concern for me after that except the asking around about his -asws news and the searching about his -asws affairs.

\n I did not ask about him -asws , anyone from the clan of Hashim -as , and the leaders, and the scribes, and the judged, and the jurists, and rest of the people, except I found him -asws , in their view, to be in the peak of majesty, and the magnificence, and the lofty position, and the beautiful word, and the forefront over his -asws family and his -asws elders and others, and they were all saying, \u2018He -asws is an Imam -asws of the Rafizis (Shias)\u2019.

\n It magnified his -asws worth in my presence, when I did not see for him -asws , neither a friend nor an enemy except and he was of goodly word regarding him -asws and praised upon him -asws .