121 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd narrated to us; he said: Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr al-Salūlī narrated to us; he said: I entered, together with a companion of mine, upon Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, and he was sitting on the bare earth. I said to my companion, “This is a man of renunciation.” Dāwūd replied, “The true ascetic is the one who has the means yet chooses to relinquish them.”