Who is the man whom I -asws saw you at lunchtime doing with...

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?’ He said, ‘O my son! That is the son -asws of Al-Reza -asws . That is an Imam -asws of the Rafizis (Shias)’. He was silent for a while (then) he said, ‘O 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’.

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.

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, ‘He -asws is an Imam -asws of the Rafizis (Shias)’.

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 . One of the people of the gathering, from the Asharites said to him, ‘O Abu Bakr!

What is the state of his -asws brother Ja’far?’ He said, ‘And who Ja’far?’ He asked about his news, or associated with him, that Ja’far -asws was being open with the corruption, shameless, drinking the wines (intoxications), least of the men I had seen, and the most violating of the veil by himself, habitually intoxicated, little of chastity regarding himself. By Allah -azwj !