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1888 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-Walīd al-Qurashī al-Baṣrī narrated to us. He said: Mālik ibn Dīnār said: “Were it not that people would say, ‘Mālik has gone mad,’ I would put on musūḥ (rough woolen garb), scatter ashes upon my head, and walk through the streets proclaiming, ‘Whoever sees me, let him never disobey Allah – exalted is He –!’”
١٨٨٨ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْقُرَشِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّ قَالَ: قَالَ مَالِكُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ: «لَوْلَا أَنْ يَقُولَ النَّاسُ جُنَّ مَالِكٌ لَلَبِسْتُ الْمُسُوحَ وَوَضَعْتُ الرَّمَادَ عَلَى رَأْسِي أُنَادِي فِي النَّاسِ مَنْ رَآنِي فَلَا يَعْصِيَنَّ اللَّهَ – Exalté soit-Il –»