1580 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father related to me; Yazid ibn Harun narrated to us; Ibn al-Mubarak informed us, from al-Hasan, that when illness was mentioned he said, “By Allah, there are no days more gladdening to the Muslim than the days in which his appointed term is brought ⦗225⦘ nearer, he is reminded of the meeting he had forgotten, and his sins are expiated through them.”