1257 – ‘Abd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; ‘Affan narrated to us; Ja‘far ibn Sulayman narrated to us; and some of our senior shaykhs narrated to us, who said:

‘Āmir ibn ‘Abd Allah remarked, “I find myself grieving for Basra on account of four things only: the answering voices of its mu’adhdhins (callers to prayer), the thirst of its scorching mid-day heat, because my brothers are there, and because it is my homeland.”