When my father looked at him -asws ...

When my father looked at him -asws , he stood up walking some steps towards him -asws , and I had not known him to do this with anyone from the clan of Hashim -asws , nor with the leaders, nor with the prices.

When he was near him -asws , he hugged him -asws , and kissed his -asws face and his -asws shoulders, and held his -asws hand, and seated him -asws upon his -asws prayer mat which he had been upon, and he seated to his -asws side facing towards him -asws with his face and went on to speak to him -asws , referring to him -asws by his -asws teknonym, and ransoming (saying, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ’), with himself and his fathers.

And I was surprised from what I had seen from him when the guards entered. They said, ‘Al-Muwafaq is coming!’ (Brother of caliph Al-Mu’tamid and commander of his army). And Al-Muwaffaq, whenever he came and entered to see my father, his guards and his special leaders would precede him. They would stand between the gathering of my father and between the door of the house in two rows until he would enter and exit.

My father did not cease to face towards him, discussing with him, until he looked at the special servants. On that day he said, ‘Whenever you -asws so desire, you -asws can stand (to go). May Allah -azwj Make me to be sacrificed for you -asws , O Abu Muhammad -asws !’ Then he said to his servants, ‘Take him -asws to be behind the two rows lest the commander sees him -asws !’ – meaning Al-Muwaffaq, and my father stood up and hugged him -asws and kissed his -asws face and went.

I said to the guards and his servants, ‘Woe be unto you all! Who is this one whom my father has done this with him -asws ?’ They said, ‘He -asws is a man from the Alawites call Al-Hassan -asws Bin Ali -asws , known as ‘Son -asws of Al-Reza -asws ’’. 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.

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, ‘O Ahmad! Is there any request for you?’ I said, ‘Yes, O father! If you allow, I shall ask you about it’. He said, ‘I am permitted for you, O my son, so say whatever you like!’ I said, ‘O father!