304 – ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī narrated to us; he said: Abū Dāwūd al-Maghribī narrated to us, from Ibn al-Sammāk, from Ashʿath, who said:

“I entered upon Yazīd al-Raqāshī and he said, ‘O Ashʿath, come—let us weep over cool water, and then over thirst.’

“He then kept repeating, ‘The devoted worshippers have outstripped me, I have been left behind—alas for me!’”

He had been fasting for forty-two years.