Al-ZuhdIbn Abi al-Dunya

368 – Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī related to me, from Abū Mus-hir, from Muzāḥim ibn Zufar, who said: I heard Sufyān al-Thawrī recite these verses of Ibn Ḥiṭṭān:

I see the wretched among people never grow weary of this world,
though in it they are left unclothed and hungry.

And I deem this world—however beloved it may appear—
no more than a summer cloud that soon vanishes.

٣٦٨ - وَحَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ أَبِي مُسْهِرٍ، عَنْ مُزَاحِمِ بْنِ زُفَرَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيَّ، يُنْشِدُ مِنْ قَوْلِ ابْنِ حِطَّانَ: [البحر الطويل] أَرَى أَشْقِيَاءَ النَّاسِ لَا يَسْأَمُونَهَا ... عَلَى أَنَّهُمْ فِيهَا عُرَاةٌ وَجُوَّعُ أَرَاهَا وَإِنْ كَانَتْ تُحِبُّ كَأَنَّهَا ... سَحَابَةُ صَيْفٍ عَنْ قَلِيلٍ تَقَشَّعُ

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