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- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī narrated to us. Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Abī al-Ṣaḥbāʾ al-Taymī transmitted from Suwār ibn Muṣʿab al-Hamdānī, from his father, regarding two neighboring brothers of his. Each cherished the other with a devotion seldom equaled. The elder journeyed to Isfahān; when he returned, he found that the younger had died. For nine months thereafter he kept visiting his brother’s grave. When his own end drew near, a caller suddenly cried out from behind him: ⦗56⦘ O you who weep for another, Reform your own soul and do not mourn him. The one for whom you shed your tears— Soon, soon, very soon you shall tread the same path. He turned, but saw no one there. A shiver ran through him and fever overtook him. He went back to his family, survived only three days, and died. He was buried beside his brother, and each occurrence of the word “soon” corresponded to a single day of his remaining life.
١٧- حدثنا أبو عبد الرحمن القرشي ثنا العلاء بن أبي الصهباء التيمي عن سوار بن مصعب الهمداني عن أبيه عن أخوين جارين له وكان كل واحد منهما يجد بصاحبه وجدا لا يرى مثله فخرج الأكبر إلى أصبهان فقدم وقد مات الأصغر فاختلف إلى قبره تسعة أشهر فلما حضره أجله إذا هاتف يهتف من خلفه يقول
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يا أيها الباكي على غيره ... نفسك أصلحها ولا تبكه
إن الذي تبكي على إثره ... يوشك يوشك يوشك أن تسلك في سلكه
قال فالتفت فلم يرى خلفه أحدا فاقشعر وحم فرجع إلى أهله فلم يلبث إلا ثلاثا حتى مات فدفن إلى جنبه فكانت كل واحدة من قوله يوشك يوما.