71 – ʿAwn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Salt told me; Mūsā ibn al-Ḥajjāj told me: Mālik ibn Dīnār said, “Would that I had never come into existence! But if I must be created, then would that I had died while still a child. And since I was not taken in childhood, I pray I might be granted a long life so that I could labor for my soul’s deliverance.”