924 — Al-Firyābī also narrated to us. He said: Qutayba ibn Saīd narrated to us, from Mālik ibn Anas, from Ibn Shihāb, from Abd al-Rahmān ibn Kab ibn Mālik, who reported that his father, Kab ibn Mālik, used to relate that the Messenger of Allah said:

“The believer’s soul is a bird that feeds among the trees of Paradise until Allah, Mighty and Majestic, restores it to his body on the Day He resurrects him.”