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The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

The predominant has offered you his forgiveness and he has inundated you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

And it has flooded you with many benefits.

I will travel the earth back and forth.

I will reach my goal or I will die a foreigner.

If I perish, glory to my soul!

But if my life is saved, my return will be near.

With the inkwell (al mihbarah) to the grave.

Episode 1

Baghdad 179 Hijri - 796 Gregorian

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent my shop?

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent my shop?

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent my shop?

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

This shop is for rent.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent my shop?

A shop for rent.

Poor Ahmad ibn Hanbal,

he's been calling for his father’s store for days,

hoping to find a tenant.

What do you want him to do O Aba Sarhan?

They have no support except this shop.

May Allah help him,

by Allah his situation he and his mother upset the heart oh Aba Toulama.

You're right, O Aba Sarhan.

I learned that his uncle Ishaaq ibn Hanbal tried to help them,

but Ahmad's pride prevented him from accepting even the help of his uncle.

This is how Saffiyah al-Shaybania, her mother, educated her.

To have self-esteem and pride in being servile to other than Allah.

My wife, oum Sarhan told me

that Ahmad’s mother, Saffiyah,

is the one who refused help from her uncle Ishaaq ibn Hanbal

out of pride and self-esteem.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent my shop?

A shop for rent.

The answer is too late, we are running out of time and he is not waiting.

The answer should already have been in our hands.

The answer will come if Allah wills, oh sir.

Every moment that passes, danger surrounds us even more, O Mas'oûd.

Haroun ar-Rashid's eyes are everywhere.

If Haroun learns history, our necks will fly faster

that the flight of this pigeon that we are impatiently waiting for.

If the instructions do not reach us, everything is lost.

The young man shot a homing pigeon.

He killed the pigeon, catch him!

Catch it!

Wait, you thief!

Thief!

Let this stupid youngster be wiped out!

How can he fly a carrier pigeon ?!

Does he not know that this is prohibited ?!

There is no power or force except in Allah.

This one goes with that one.

Put it here ô 'Aamer.

And this one goes with this one.

This one is with that one, yes.

There remains that one.

You idler and idiot!

Mum.

Get up.

I told you more than once to stay in a corner of the market

to mend the shoes of passers-by there.

Get up.

Get up, get up!

Mom, I didn't leave a place without the police chasing me there.

What can I do ?

Is Baghdad empty of where you can work?

Mom, where can I find this place?

Whenever I sit near the market, the police chase me.

The last time oh mom they almost caught me and threw me in prison.

Each time I find in you only defeatism

and the arguments with which you justify your laziness and your incapacity.

Ah oh mom, if only we had a shop in the center of the market,

we would be in a better situation.

Mum ?! What have you oh mom

Mum ! Where are you going ?

Mom, what do you got ?!

What has she oum 'Aamer?

Mum !

Where were we ?

We were at... this one goes with that one.

No, this one doesn't go with that one.

Aah ô oum 'Aamer!

I'm going to have to start again.

This one goes with that one.

I don't know oh Ahmad what is the cause of your obstinacy.

I am your uncle.

Consider me your big brother.

I am not a stranger for you to refuse my help.

If it bothers you, consider what I am giving you as a debt.

You will reimburse me when Allah will facilitate you.

But I think that ..

May Allah reward you for what you do O uncle,

we have talked about this many times,

and you know my opinion on that.

Ahmad, how long are you going to stay on this situation with your mother?

You've been calling for your father's shop for days

hoping to find a tenant, to no avail.

Beside the difficulty is, of course, a facility, my uncle.

Beside the difficulty is, of course, an ease.

If I can't find a tenant for the store, I will look for a job.

As you wish oh Ahmad.

As you wish.

But promise me never to forget if you lack the means

that you have an uncle who preserves his brother's love

and which links his family ties after his death.

May Allah reward you,

you are foremost for me and I am foremost for you,

but I am satisfied with what Allah has given me and I place my trust in him.

There is no god but Allah, Ahmad, if there is anything new, let me know.

May the peace be with you.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.

A shop for rent.

This shop is for rent.

Who wants to rent it?

Mum !

O mom!

Mum !

Mum !

What is behind you fool?

Forget what's behind me

and look what I brought you.

Woe to you, where did you bring it from?

I chased him to the market.

The guards tried to catch me, but I lost them on the way.

You did well, go and light the fire while I prepare it.

Go ahead, I'm too hungry.

If they sent the letters with the sheep instead of the pigeons,

I would have brought you a sheep.

A shop for rent.

A shop for rent.

A shop for rent.

A shop for rent.

A shop for rent.

Peace be with you.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and his blessing.

What is your name young man?

Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Hanbal al-Shaybani.

Who owns this shop?

To my father.

Where is he ? I want to see it right away.

My father died when I was still a child.

May Allah have mercy on him and may Allah bless you O my son.

Good, my aunt, is there anything I can do for you?

Who takes care of the affairs of this shop?

My mother and whoever speaks to you my aunt.

All right, I want to meet your mother.

Very well my aunt.

Announce the good news ô oum Khaled.

I don't know what I could tell you.

But my son Khaled informed me

that the carpet maker

currently does not need someone to weave the carpets.

Arm yourself with patience oh oum Ahmad,

there is only relief after the difficulty.

I don't know what I could say to you, oh oum Khaled,

my sorrow and sorrow is for my son Ahmad,

if we stay on this situation,

I fear he will lose science

if he is occupied in the search for subsistence.

And I dedicated it to research and work with science.

It must be Ahmad.

I ask Allah to find a tenant for the shop.

Peace be with you.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.

Are you Ahmad's mother?

Yes.

I need you then.

What are you saying ?!

That's what happened sir.

Woe to you if that is true.

Rather woe to all of us if the letter reaches Haroun ar-Rashid.

Go and bring me this young man who stole the pigeon.

Come back only with him in your possession.

I sent the soldiers to look for him.

It's not enough.

I want you to pick it up in person.

Our fate is linked to this letter ô Mas’oûd.

No creature should know what it contains, you understand!

Go ahead !

At your command, sir.

What is this bad luck.

If the letter reaches one of the palace men,

our necks will be cut.

Ahmad.

Ahmad.

Peace be upon you, uncle.

Peace be upon you, where are you going?

In the circle of my sheikh.

Ah, since you're going to your sheikh's circle,

is that you found a tenant for the shop.

Yes, praise to Allah.

I leave you to Allah.

Let them laugh a little and cry a lot.

Let them laugh a little and cry a lot

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.

Peace be upon him who will have prestige, ibn al-Ayham.

Water the noble rose of the house,

and let the deposit float in the waters of Dijla (Tiger).

The crying eye waits to see his rose in Basra,

one sun goes away and another

then let the rose get some air

and goes to Silvan (Meyafarqîn) immediately and quickly.

Your friend, Thawba.

It is a wonderful poem.

Is it the incantation of a sorcerer or the Zadjal of a poet ô Bahloul?

What do you expect from madmen if not words devoid of reason.

Let them laugh a little and cry a lot.

These may not be words without reason.

If these are not words without reason, what are they?

Peace be upon him who will have prestige, ibn al-Ayham.

Water the noble rose of the house,

and let the deposit float in the waters of Dijla (Tiger).

The crying eye waits to see his rose in Basra,

one sun goes away and another then lets the rose take the air

and goes to Silvan (Meyafarqîn) immediately and quickly.

Your friend, Thawba.

I think these are enigmatic words that hide something.

And what is your interpretation, my nephew?

It seems that an important person

will flee from the palace by the Tigris river,

There will be someone waiting for him in Basra,

then in a day and a night he will be released,

and whoever takes care of this must flee to the city of Meyafarqîn.

Do you speak seriously oh Ahmad or are you kidding?

When did you see me speak for nothing ô uncle?

If your interpretation of the letter is true,

then a great danger threatens the governor and the subjects.

Our managers must be on their guard.

Who can do this?

I know someone who can get us to the palace.

How long are we going to stay like this, mom?

I am tired of this life.

Those my age got married and became fathers.

You have grown up and therefore you are starting to think about marriage.

If only I was looking for a job I would eat from.

Isn't it better than this life of thieves?

And what can you do if not steal?

Where are you ashamed of your father's job?

Mom, theft is not a job.

It is not a job!

And this place is not mine!

Yes, your place is to the right of Haroun ar-Rashid.

Can you do anything other than theft?

If only you could excel there.

You steal only what does not fatten and does not appease hunger.

You are a shame even for thieves.

This is because I am not one.

I am not one of them.

Allah may not have prescribed me to be a thief.

Maybe it intended more for me than what I acquire in a flight

which reduces virility, which anger Allah and which cuts subsistence.

From what I see, this life only hides you more stupidity

and for me more miseries.

Out of my sight ! Satiety took your reason.

You will see that I am better than what you consider me ô oum al-Faraj.

Faraj.

O Faraj.

Faraj!

Ô ibn Nouh.

Have you finished the course?

Yes, we are finished, where have you been?

You know where I was.

You are still absent, oh Ahmad.

O ibn Nouh, you know I have no choice.

I fear the sheikh is furious with you.

Do you think the sheikh will fire me because of this?

No, I don't think things will get to this point,

you are his best student and his favorite.

But I fear he will do it if you are still away.

I will not be absent if Allah wills.

I'm done with the shop that occupied me.

Did you find a tenant?

God willing.

If all goes well, I will not be absent if Allah wills.

God willing.

Let's go.

Look who's coming, Mr. Laggard as usual.

Shut up O Souhayb!

And take care of your business.

I take care of my business,

and I don't miss classes like some.

Go back to your shop and find yourself a bite to eat.

Or do you think the sky will rain you down with bread?

Calm down ô ibn Hanbal, calm down.

Let's go, come on.

Come on, let's go.

What do you think about working for me and leaving science for yours?

You will not find in all of Khorrassan, nor in the other cities

someone who will bring you merchandise like this.

She is very pretty indeed.

What do you think i take all your merchandise

I was hoping not to refuse you a request ô aba Ya'coub,

but aba Ja'far ordered them.

It seems that your father will not finish his work today.

And me too, it seems that I will not be done with your insistence.

Faouz, how about we go to the market alone

and we buy what we want, please!

OK very good.

Dad, what do you think we are going me and my sister

buy the fabrics you promised him?

She won't stop insisting until she has what she wants.

How could i leave you

go alone to a city like this?

Are we little daddy so that you worry about us?

We will buy what we want and we end up at the caravan.

Alright, as you wish.

But don't delay.

Thank you dad.

Lets' go.

Wait, wait for me!

It means that there is a person from a noble house

who will flee from the palace across the Tigris river,

There will be someone waiting for him in Basra,

then in a day and a night he will be released

and whoever takes care of this must flee to Meyafarqîn.

If what you say is true,

that means there is a plot

which is woven at night in the palace of the Caliphate.

And I think that whoever is going to flee is part of the Talibiyyin.

And there is no one other than 'Omara ibn al-Ayham

who can secretly prepare such a conspiracy.

His excellence knows more.

But tell me,

how could you interpret the puzzles of this letter?

I have no science in the art of letters

nor in solving puzzles, your excellence.

He is my nephew, Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

Your nephew deserves a great reward

for his intelligence and insight.

My nephew is an orphan, Allah has given him the art of writing,

it is useful in transcribing books.

His excellence, can he order

to have a job in the house of wisdom?

He will have that, and you will also have the reward for what you did.

May Allah reward you for your action, excellence.

Praise be to Allah, he gave me until satisfaction,

I did this only as a precaution for my community and for fear

unrest that could harm the lands of Islam and its people.

If only everyone could have the same precaution as you

for their religion and their community.

Our doors will always be open to you, O Ishaaq.

May Allah perpetuate safety and security on the community of Islam

and that it protects it from all visible or hidden troubles, excellence.

May Allah reward you O ibn Hanbal.

May Allah reward you.

Does his excellence allow me to leave?

May security accompany you.

Peace be with you.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and his blessing.

How is it that they still haven't come?

And what do I know ô aba Faouz ?!

There is no power or force except in Allah.

Where did they go ?!

You shouldn't have left them alone.

I did not leave them ô aba Rustom, we made an appointment here.

I'll go get them.

Go quickly.

So the snakes started to come out of their burrows.

Do they think Haroun ar-Rashid

is heedless of their machinations and their plots?

By the one who holds my soul in his hand, I would make them an example.

Relax, majesty, they are more incapable than a tick.

They will be punished for what they have plotted.

They don't deserve all this anger from you.

How do they not deserve all this anger O Yahya?

How? 'Or' What ?!

So that they do not stop their error and their corruption on earth?

Whenever we forgive one of them,

he rewards our beneficence with ingratitude and denial.

And now the Talibi,

now the Talibi is plotting conspiracies from its prison.

They will suffer the consequences of what they have plotted against us.

I want you to end this plot in his cradle

before the tear is bigger than what is torn.

Be certain, O majesty,

that Omara ibn al-Ayham and all those who helped and followed him,

will have a punishment that will terrify them and their fellows

who sow corruption in the lands of Islam.

Be hard with ibn al-Ayham

until he reveals the names of all the traitors.

Bring me that criminal right now.

At your command, majesty.

I am the lively man you know,

closes like the glowing head of the snake.

Ahmad.

You know that Souhayb only said what he said because he is jealous

from your place with the sheikh

and your ingenuity which he doesn't even have a tenth of.

My brother Mohammad,

we must not evoke any evil person in his absence,

this is the first thing.

Second, if you think about Souhayb's words, they are true.

Maybe it would be better for my fellow men

that they take care of their livelihood and their daily subsistence.

How can you say that oh Ahmad?

It may be a presumption on my part

to go in search of science

while I see the misery we are in

and the poverty that eats away at my mother.

I must not think only of myself.

Ahmad, poverty is not a fault

and it is not a hindrance to the search for science.

Poverty is not a defect, indeed,

she strips away reason and virility

and it takes away science and politeness.

Praise be to Allah anyway.

I am satisfied with what Allah has intended for me,

but I fear that by giving myself up to science, I will deprive my mother of the law.

No, oh man!

No, oh man! By Allah your search for science

is better than your mother's money than this whole life.

If only things could be as you say.

If only things could be as you say ô ibn Nouh.

Peace be upon the prince of believers.

May the peace be with you.

Please! Pity oh majesty, have mercy on me.

Pity ?

Is it now that you ask for mercy, you traitor?

If my sin is great, your forgiveness is greater, O majesty.

I swear by Allah!

That I would make you an example for whoever his soul suggests to him

to break the pact and betray the community.

The last time,

my mercy preceded my anger when i forgave Yahya al-Talibi

in tribute to his kinship

and to ward off unrest among Muslims.

But this time,

by Allah!

By Allah, I would make you an example.

Take it from judge abi Youssuf,

to judge him with the judgment of Allah on traitors.

Take it !

O prince of believers.

O prince of believers.

O prince of believers.

O prince of believers.

I implore your intercession through your kinship with the prophet of Allah

so that you forgive me, majesty.

May the prayer and salvation of Allah be upon him.

O Allah pray over Mohammad, his family and his companions.

I implore your intercession through your nephew abu al-Qassim, Mohammad ﷺ.

Where are you O Faouz?

Where are you O Shahinaz?

How did you disappear, my daughters?

I will look for you all over Baghdad until I find you.

Between a traitor!

Praise be to Allah.

Let's go.

Praise be to Allah.

Praise be to Allah that I am safe.

Killing is little against his fellows among traitors, O majesty.

He asked for intercession with my family with the prophet ﷺ.

May the prayer and salvation of Allah be upon him.

But I don't know how I could help myself

to tear it with my nails for his betrayal.

Anyway,

the fact that he's alive is better for us

until he reveals the names of his associates among the traitors.

This conspiracy hides behind it a great evil O Yahya.

The question that bothers me

this is how a traitor like him can be the head of the guards?

Is it not a more serious fault than hers?

We have seen in him nothing but loyalty, O majesty.

You only saw loyalty in him.

You only saw loyalty in him

while he was preparing evil for us and hiding deception from us.

How is it possible O Yahya?

Only Allah knows the secrets O majesty.

I hope we don't find many like him,

those who only show us loyalty

and which prepare us for deceptions.

Either some majesty that it will not happen again.

I was some of them before O Yahya.

And this is what happened.

We will be more careful and we will be more consistent O majesty.

We will see.

We will see.

Peace be with you.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.

I am looking for my father,

the one who sold you silver brushes.

Ah, the trader Abu Faouz.

Yes.

He left.

Where ?

I do not know.

Prince Yahya al-Barmaki is impressed

by the delicacy of your intelligence

and your ability to interpret the puzzles of the letter.

To reward you,

he ordered you to be made a copyist in the house of wisdom.

What do you think ?

But how can I reconcile this work with my studies?

You know I want you to research science the way I want you,

do not worry,

we will find a solution to reconcile between studies and work.

Very well uncle.

But I wouldn't make any decisions until I talk to my mom about it.

You are right.

Your mother's advice is a blessing to you.

But know that the opportunities of life are like birds,

they have no fixed place.

I would do if Allah wills.

Peace be upon you my aunt.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and his blessing.

I would like to ask you something, if you allow me.

Please, I listen to you.

Have you seen a man in his fifties

accompanied by a girl my age looking for a lost girl?

I have never seen or heard of a man who lost a girl.

There is no power or force except in Allah.

There is no power or force except in Allah.

Why all the fear and worry in your eyes?

What is your story?

I lost my father and my sister in the Baghdad market.

I'm a stranger here.

There is no power or force except in Allah.

We are all your family my sister.

Returns.

No, may Allah reward you.

I have to go.

Where are you going as night approaches?

Didn't you say you were a stranger?

Come home, you will spend the night with me and tomorrow you will resume your research.

May Allah be kind to you, but I have to go

maybe i would find them in one of the hostels

or in the place where we left the caravan.

As you wish.

But I and my husband are at your service.

My husband knows all the hostels in Baghdad.

If we don't find them in hostels,

we will go where your caravan is.

I would be grateful.

There is no need to thank us, it is our duty.

Come in, while my husband is getting ready to go out.

Between.

Welcome.

Welcome, come in, you're welcome.

Come inside

until I ask my husband to get ready to go out.

Open the door !

Open the door madam, I beg you, open the door.

Open the door !

Handala!

Why did you close the door, ma'am ?!

O Handala!

I beg you, open the door.

Open the door !

I beg you, open the door!

Why did you close the door, ma'am? !!

Peace be upon you little sister.

May the peace be with you.

Good sister, what have you got?

I am a foreigner from Baghdad,

I lost my father and my sister.

Have you lost them ?! What do you mean ?

I don't know, I forgot myself

and I found myself far from them, lost in the market.

What region are you from?

Khorrassan.

Khorrassan.

There is no power or force except in Allah.

Can you help me find them?

I lost my way here.

It's a duty, little sister.

But as you can see, it's dark,

the market is empty except for a few traders,

where are we going to look for them?

Do you have loved ones here so I can take you home?

Your family may be at home.

No.

I have no relatives in Baghdad.

I lost my father, and I have no one in this area.

Relax little sister, relax.

All the Baghdadi are your family.

I'm still waiting for what you have to say.

My words ? On what ?

On what occupies your brain and who has taken possession of your mind.

Nothing important.

Let your mom know first,

and she will decide whether it is important or not.

I don't want to worry about that.

Ahmad!

As you wish oh oum Ahmad.

My uncle offered to work

in the house of wisdom as a copyist.

Tell O Baghdad the memories of the Imam of the Muslims.

The fourth moon in the best envoy's lantern.

Tell O Baghdad the memories of the Imam of the Muslims.

The fourth moon in the best envoy's lantern.

And take us back centuries to the time of the followers,

Ahmad, the protector and fortress of Islam.

Tell us about the young man Shaybani with great determination,

who travels across the country in search of the obvious truth.

Tell us about the young man Shaybani with great determination,

who travels across the country in search of the obvious truth.

He drinks the lights of the river from well-guided scholars,

proclaiming the truth in the face of unjust tyrants.

Tell O Baghdad the memories of the Imam of the Muslims.

The fourth moon in the best envoy's lantern.

And take us back centuries to the time of the followers,

Ahmad, the protector and fortress of Islam.

His memory continues to beat in the hearts of humanity,

it continues to shine with the lights over and over again.

His memory continues to beat in the hearts of humanity,

it continues to shine with the lights over and over again.

Through his guidance, the guide and trustworthy community was enlightened.

Thus, it is the principle of the All-Merciful to rescue the believers.

Rescue the believers.

Rescue the believers.