513 – al-Hasan ibn Saʿīd al-Qawariri narrated to me. He said, “There was a man who would pick up discarded date pits while reciting these verses, composed in the wāfir metre:

I deem this world, for him who grips it tight,
A torment that grows harsher with each height.
It shames the ones who honor it with pride,
And honors all who cast it to the side.
If you can do without a thing, let go;
Take only what you truly need below.”