38 – Saʿdawayh narrated to us, through Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, from Thābit, who said:

Abū ʿUbaydah was serving as governor of Syria. He addressed the people and declared, “People, I am a man of Quraysh. By Allah, there is not a single one of you—whether red or black—who surpasses me in piety but that I would love to be in his very skin.”