29. My father narrated to me; al-Haytham ibn Khārijah narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Sulaymān ibn Sulaym, from Yaḥyā ibn Jābir, who said:

Abū al-Dardāʾ attended a funeral. When he saw the relatives of the deceased weeping over him, he said, “How pitiable you are! Tomorrow’s dead are mourning the dead of today.”