37 – Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn told me; he said: I heard Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn say: It was once asked of Ibn Yazīd al-Raqāshī, “Did your father ever quote poetry?” He replied, “Yes, he would often recite:

[al-Baḥr al-Basīṭ]

We cheer at the passing days even as we pare them away—
Yet every day gone by draws us nearer to the final term.
So toil for your own sake before death, striving in earnest,
For true profit and loss are found only in one’s deeds.”