119 – He said: I was also informed through Ḥarmalah ibn Yaḥyā. Ibn Wahb narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, who said: My father used to say, “If I were given the choice between never having existed and remaining in the state I am now in, I would choose not to have been anything at all, so that I would not have to face the Reckoning on the Day of Resurrection.”