122 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Muhammad b. Qudāmah al-Jawharī narrated to me, from one of his teachers, who said: Raqabah b. Masqalah said:

“I once passed by a fuller who, on a bitterly cold day, was twisting a garment to wring it out. I asked him, ‘What did that tree ever do to you?’ He retorted, ‘Would that it had never been created!’ I have never seen anyone respond more swiftly than he did.”