36 – Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed me; he said: I heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾī relate, on the authority of one of the elders of the Anṣār, from Abū ʿAdī al-ʿAtakī, who said: Kaʿb ibn Mālik recited in one of his poems: ⦗30⦘

[al-Baḥr al-Basīṭ] (the Basit metre)
“If a man should escape both killing and decrepitude,
the length of life is still worn away by that ever-renewing pair—night and day.”