ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; my father narrated to me; al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us, from Abū Jābir, that Abū al-Dardāʾ—whenever he heard those who keep vigil in night prayer reciting the Quran—would say: “May my father be the ransom for the mourners who weep over their own souls before the Day of Resurrection; their hearts grow moist with the remembrance of Allah—or for the sake of remembering Him.”