So I began to say: "Hearing and obedience and acceptance of your command, O my Master."

He said: "May God grant you success, O Ali ibn Ahmad. It is as if I see you among an assembly of the people of Tarabay in this spot, gathered upon the obedience of God, His remembrance, Him, and with Him." And this is among what he mentioned to me, and that was [when] I was [with] fifty-odd men from the people of Tarabay.

Al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khasibi, may God make his face radiant, said: "And I visited in the year three hundred and thirty-six, and Ali ibn Ahmad was lost [deceased]. And it happened that one hundred and forty of the people of Tarabay were with me, monotheists; no one from other than them mixed with them. And praise be to God for what He granted success. And the report is completed, and praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.