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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