1665 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said, “I found in my father’s notebook (may Allah have mercy on him): Abu ʿUbayd the blacksmith, ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Wasil, narrated to us; Hisham narrated to us; from al-Hasan, regarding this verse, ‘remaining therein ⦗234⦘ for ages’ (al-Nabaʾ: 23). He said: ‘As for the aḥqāb (epochs), they have no fixed number other than everlastingness in the Fire. Yet it has been mentioned that a single ḥuqb is seventy thousand years, and each “day” of that is seventy thousand of the years you reckon.’