6 – Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Sawwār narrated to me; he said: Layth ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from ʿAqīl, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Mughīra ibn al-Akhnas, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “People’s lifespans are decreed from one Shaʿbān to the next; a man may marry, and even a child may be born to him, while his name has already been written among those who will die.”