One day I was in Jamaran when the Imam had just settled in Jamaran. It was the beginning of the war and among the visitors who came to see the Imam was a young woman who had recently lost her husband and was accompanied with her daughter too who was a few years old. The daughter was extremely restless and had been crying since morning while her entire head and face was soiled and tears trickled down her cheeks. Her mother was anxious and wanted to take this child to the Imam by any means so that he would calm the child that had lost her father. She said that she was least concerned that her husband was martyred because she herself had made supported the idea and made arrangements for his departure to the warfront. But now what troubled her was her child and that she thought that the only solution was for the Imam to console her. My brother then took the child and brought her to the Imam. The Imam was walking in the courtyard and we expected him that as soon as he set his eyes on the child he would run his hand over her and then we would take her back to her mother. However, when he saw this crying and yelling girl, he sat down on the stone beside the pool and took the child in his arms and ran his hands lovingly and affectionately over her head and face and wiped off her tears. He was engrossed with this child for quite some time and later when the child calmed down he let her go and we returned her to her mother.
The Imam’s sympathy for the children of martyrs: ‘Ali Thaqafi