35 – Abū Ghassān Mālik ibn Ismāʿīl al-Qaysī narrated to us; Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah narrated to us; and Ziyād Abū ʿUmar narrated, saying: “I heard a man from Banū Qays, who used to sit in the assemblies of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, relate the following: Whenever ʿAlī mounted the pulpit he would say, before pronouncing the tashahhud, ‘By Allah, there is no one who reaches advanced age—however long he may live—except that he is on his way to perish.’ Then he would proceed with the tashahhud.”