350 – Al-Fuḍayl ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Wahb ibn Bayān narrated to us; he said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to me; he said: Abū Saʿīd Khalaf ibn Ḥabīb narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

“The likeness of this world is that of a garment that has been ripped from its first stitch to its last, leaving it clinging by a single thread at the very end—and that thread is on the verge of snapping.”