تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.25.1

12.25.1

There was friendship between him and me, and I often visited his house. When I set out on my travels I left with him a son of mine whom I had named Aḥmad, and I do not know what God has done with him. One day I said to him: "Why do you eat alone and do not gather your companions to eat?" He said to me: "I cannot bear to look at them, so many of them, eating my food!" So he used to eat alone, and he would give his companion Muḥammad b. Abī al-Sharafī some of the food for whomever he liked, and dispose of the rest!!