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32 – Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to me, through ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Baṣrī, who said: I heard Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ say that Muʿāwiyah declared, “I would never be pleased to exchange noble character for a herd of red camels.”
٣٢ - حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ الْبَصْرِيِّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَمْرِو بْنَ الْعَلَاءِ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ،: «مَا يَسُرُّنِي بَدَلَ الْكَرْمِ حُمْرُ النَّعَمِ»