172 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; my father narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb related to us, in Saʿīd’s Tafsīr, from Qatādah, who said:

“It has reached us that a man would tie a stone to his stomach so that he could stand upright despite the pangs of hunger, and that, in winter, a man would scoop out a small pit in the earth and lie inside it—having no blanket other than that.”