We said to him: "Indeed, you indicate a great merit for this day, as if it is a day of visitation (Ziyarah)?"

He said: "It is a day that is preferred over all other days. In it, God encouraged His creation, and in it, He promised them His pardon and His well-being if they comply with what He commanded them therein."

"And I will make that known to you. Know that I went early on the like of this day to my Master Abu al-Hasan, may his might be mighty, to ask him for a need that had arisen for me regarding some of the scribes of the bureaus (Diwans), and I had a note with me."

"When I stood at the door, the servant came out to me and said: 'Enter.' So I entered upon him, and he had done the like of what you see me doing, and he was wiping the wetness of his beard from the ritual bath (Ghusl)."

"When he saw me, he said: 'O Ibn Ayyub, is this a day in which the believers present their needs to the opponents (Mukhalifin), while leaving what is nearer, faster, and more obligatory? Do you not know that God the Exalted, majestic is His Name, swore upon Himself that He would not reject for a believer on this day supplication, nor reject a means [of approach] for him, nor disappoint his hope, nor cut off his expectation, nor make his enemies gloat over him, nor enable his plotter against him, nor surrender him to an evil event.