Muslim likewise recorded this narration, transmitting it through the same Ḥammād—Ḥammād ibn Zayd—and he also included it (1) through ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū Burdah, from al-Agharr ibn Yasār al-Muzanī; some say al-Juhanī. To the best of my knowledge, he transmitted nothing other than this one ḥadith.
Abū Saʿīd al-Thaghrī informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī informed us; Ibn Qāniʿ informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shawārib related to us; Abū al-Walīd related to us; Shuʿbah related, saying:
ʿAmr ibn Murrah told me: I heard Abū Burdah narrating from a man of Juhaynah called al-Agharr—who was one of the Prophet’s Companions—that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say, “People, turn in repentance to your Lord, for I myself repent to Allah one hundred times every day.” (2)
Abū Dāwūd said in his Sunan: “In Egypt I measured a cucumber thirteen hand-spans long, and I saw a citron loaded on a camel, cut in two pieces and carried like a pair of panniers.”
As for Sijistān, the region from which Imām Abū Dāwūd came: it is a small, self-contained province adjoining the land of Sind. To its west lies the city of Herat; to the south a desert separates it from the provinces of Fārs and Kirmān; to the east is another desert and steppe between it and Makrān (3), the capital of Sind, the eastern limit of which is the land of Multān; and to the north begins the first part of India.
The land of Sijistān is rich in palm-trees and sand. It belongs to the third of the seven climatic zones, and its chief city is Zaranj, whose latitude is thirty-two degrees, and the name is also applied to