This anecdote is narrated by Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini(HA)

Allamah Tabatabai(RA) was extremely kind and sentimental.  He never forgot his friends and always kept in touch with them.  He acted benevolently with his private students, and was attached to and familiar with them, and inquired about the situation of those who had moved to other cities.  

Taken from: “Stories from the life of Allamah Tabatabai(RA) by Ahmad Luqmani, Allamah Tabatabai, “Meezan-e-Marefat”, translated by S.K. Yusufali, Qum, Iran, 2006