1928 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: “I found in the notebook of Bishr ibn al-Harith, written in his own hand, that he said: A man was once mentioned in the presence of al-Rabiʿ ibn Khuthaym (may Allah have mercy on him), whereupon al-Rabiʿ remarked, ‘The remembrance of Allah—glorified and exalted be He—is better than the mention of men.’”