174 – al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Saʿdī narrated to me; ʿUmar ibn Abī Khalīfah related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ḥusayn al-Makkī, who said: “Whenever a son of theirs came of age, they would offer him marriage. If he accepted, that was that; otherwise they would give him the means to marry and would say, ‘You know best what you desire.’”