800. ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Abu Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash—reporting from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from his father, from Abū Dharr (may Allah have mercy on him)—who said:

People asked him, “Will you not acquire an estate as So-and-so and So-and-so have done?” He replied, “What would I gain by becoming a master over land? What suffices me each day is a single draught of water or milk, and each Friday a qafiz of wheat.”