90. Muhammad ibn al-ʿAbbas related to me; Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAʾisha transmitted to us, from al-Laythi, who said:

The wife of Hisham al-Dastuwaʾi said, “Whenever the lamp went out, an overwhelming dread would seize him. I said to him, ‘That dread overcomes you each time this lamp is extinguished.’ He replied, ‘It reminds me of the darkness of the grave.’ Then he added, ‘Had any of the early generations preceded me in doing this, I would have stipulated in my will that, when I die, I be buried in a corner of my own house.’

“It was only a short while later that he died. Afterwards, one of his companions passed by his grave and said, ‘O Abu Bakr, by Allah, you have now reached the very thing we all feared.’”