1430 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Rawḥ narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Qatadah, who said:

Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Ziyād used to say, “Let each of you imagine that death has already reached him; he then begged his Lord for a reprieve and his Lord granted it. Therefore, let him spend that reprieve in obeying Allah—Exalted is He.”