ʿAbdullāh narrated to us; he said, “Bayan ibn al-Hakam narrated to me; Muhammad ibn Ḥatim narrated to us; Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to me; Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us, from Layth, from Ṭalḥah, who said:

Iblis declared, ‘Nothing I have ever inflicted on Job has pleased me more than this: whenever I heard his groan, I knew I had succeeded in causing him pain.’”