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127 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us. He said: “Muhammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed me; Sijaf ibn Manḍūr informed me; Sawwar al-ʿAnbarī narrated: ‘I never once saw ʿAṭāʾ al-Sulaymī without tears streaming from his eyes. Whenever I looked at him, I could liken him only to a bereaved mother, and it seemed as though ʿAṭāʾ did not belong to this world at all.’”
١٢٧ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ، أَخْبَرَنِي سِجْفُ بْنُ مَنْظُورٍ، ثنا سَوَّارٌ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، قَالَ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ عَطَاءً السُّلَيْمِيَّ قَطُّ - إِلَّا وَعَيْنَاهُ تَفِيضَانِ، وَمَا كُنْتُ أُشَبِّهُ عَطَاءً إِذَا رَأَيْتُهُ إِلَّا بِالْمَرْأَةِ الثَّكْلَى، وَكَأَنَّ عَطَاءً لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا»