34 – Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ibrahim narrated to us, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, from al-Aswad ibn Shayban, who said:

“Ammar ibn Yasir—may Allah be pleased with him—was a man of deep and enduring sorrow and melancholy, and the words he most often repeated were: ‘I seek refuge in the All-Merciful from tribulation.’”