89 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Ahmad ibn Ibrahim narrated to me; he said: Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us, from al-Awzaʿi, who said: ⦗65⦘

“There was a fisherman among us who used to catch nīnan, meaning fish. He would go out to fish on Friday, and neither the time nor the place of the Friday congregational prayer deterred him. The earth therefore swallowed him and his mule. When the people came out, they saw that his mule had sunk into the ground so completely that nothing of it remained except its tail, still protruding.”