as for his trial in the sanctuary if a man feared for his heart and was close to himself and was a scholar who appeared to be pious and was in his view someone who was fit for trustworthiness with regard to blood private parts and money on the surface he would like to test him with an inner trial so he would order him to be transferred to his palace and to empty for him some of the rooms that he could get close to and not to transfer to it any woman slave girl or woman and he would say to him i love to be intimate with you during my night and day and whenever some of your sanctuary is with you he will cut you off from me and he will cut me off from you.
فأما محنته في الحرم، فكان إذا خف الرجل على قلبه، وقرب من نفسه، وكان عالما يظهر التأله، وكان عنده ممن يصلح للأمانة في الدماء والفروج والأموال على ظاهره، أحب أن يمتحنه بمحنة باطنة فيأمر به أن يحول إلى قصره، ويفرغ له بعض الحجر التي تقرب منه، ولا يحول إليها امرأة ولا جارية ولا حرمة، ويقول له إني أحب الأنس بك في ليلي ونهاري، ومتى كان معك بعض حرمك، قطعك عني، وقطعني عنك.