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- ʿAbd Allah related to us; my father told me; Rawḥ conveyed to us; Hishām transmitted, from al-Ḥasan, who said: Abu Bakr declared, “By Allah, I would have preferred to be this tree, eaten from and then cut down.”
٥٨١ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنِي أبِي، أَخْبَرَنَا رَوْحٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: «وَاللَّهِ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ تُؤْكَلُ وَتُعْضَدُ»