2044 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Muhammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu Waʾil, who said: “I was with Masruq when he was serving as governor over al-Silsilah, and I have never seen a man more self-restrained than Masruq; he would take nothing for himself except the water of the Tigris.”