228 – Muhammad ibn Idris related to me, saying: “ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us ⦗142⦘, from Ibn al-Mubarak, from Jaʿfar ibn Sulayman, from Hisham, from Marwan al-Muhallimi, who said: I asked Malik ibn Dinar, ‘I have been told that ripe fruit is brought and taken away while you never taste any of it?’ He replied, ‘Had plain ashes sufficed to keep me alive, I would have eaten nothing else until I knew how my Lord intends to deal with me.’”