203 – Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn narrated to us; Abū ʿUmar al-ʿUmrī told us; Sīf ibn Bishr al-Ṣaghānī reported: “While traveling through Wādī Ḥaḍramawt I passed by a grave from days long gone. It bore an inscription in Himyaritic, and when I looked closely I read:

O you who built up the world so you might dwell within it—
The appointed term and the turns of fate have outstripped your soul.”