241 – Hamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās related to me; Abdān ibn ʿUthmān narrated; ʿAbdallāh narrated; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, reported that ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd said: “I would love to pass through this world as a solitary man, like a mounted traveler who rides out at dawn and is back by nightfall.”