The Sixty-Seventh Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the Sixteenth of Jumada al-Ula, 368 AH.

I was worried that my door would be locked and that I would not leave my house until my term (death) had come. I was informed that one of you had claimed that I was diminishing the best of people after our Prophet (s),…

[The caliph] Abu Ja`far al-Dawaniqi [al-Mansur] sent for me in the middle of the night so that I may answer. He said: I remained thinking to myself, and I said: “The commander of the faithful has not sent for me in this…