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- ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father informed me; Rawḥ transmitted to us; Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allah narrated, on the authority of Qatādah, who said: “It has reached me that Abu Bakr remarked, ‘I wish I were but a patch of grass that the grazing animals consume.’”
٥٨٣ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنِي أبِي، حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَالَ: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي خُضْرَةً يَأْكُلُنِي الدَّوَابُّ "