319 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Abū ʿAqīl Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabīb ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; he said: Abū Usāmah narrated to us; he said: Hishām ibn Ḥassān narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

“Jacob entered upon the king and noticed that he was downcast. The king asked him, ‘Why do I see you so sorrowful, O Jacob?’ He replied, ‘A financial hardship has befallen me, and that is why I am grieved.’ Thereupon Allah revealed to him: ‘Do you complain of Me to My enemy? I will surely prolong your grief.’ So he remained in sadness for eighty years, and at that time there was no creature on earth more honored by Allah than he.”