1813 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: I was informed by Sayyār. Jaʿfar narrated to us; he said: I heard Mālik ibn Dīnār say:

“An ascetic wrote to another ascetic: ‘As for what follows, how are you, and how is your condition?’ He replied, ‘Was there nothing in your own condition to occupy you from concerning yourself with mine?’”

1814 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: I read these reports to my father, and he affirmed them.