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- ʿAbd Allah narrated to us—Abu Nasr Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd reported: I heard ʿUthmān ibn Ṣakhr say, “I saw Sālim al-Dawraqī in Mecca. Though he was of royal lineage, I found him clad in coarse, patched garments. He had come to the Multazam and was saying, ‘My Lord, how often I beg You and implore You to shelter me from my own self, in view of what I see in it…’”}
١٠٥ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، ذَكَرَ أَبُو نَصْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ صَخْرٍ، يَقُولُ: رَأَيْتُ سَالِمًا الدَّوْرَقِيَّ بِمَكَّةَ وَكَانَ مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْمُلُوكِ فَرَأَيْتُ عَلَيْهِ قِيشَاشَ وَقَدْ أَتَى الْمُلْتَزَمَ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: إِلَهِي، كَمْ أَسْأَلُكَ وَأَطْلُبُ إِلَيْكَ أَنْ تُجِيرَنِي مِنْ نَفْسِي مَا أَرَى مِنْهَا "