2005 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Husayn ibn ʿAli narrated to us, from Muhammad—one of the men of Aslam who was among the earliest to reach the mosque—who said: Whenever al-Rabiʿ ibn Khuthaym went into prostration, he would resemble a discarded cloth, so the sparrows would come and perch upon him.