306 – Ḥaddathanā (he narrated to us) imlāʾan (by dictation). He said: ḥaddathanī (he narrated to me) al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ; he said: ḥaddathanā (he narrated to us) Yazīd ibn Hārūn; he said: akhbaranā (he informed us) al-Masʿūdī, from ʿAwn, who said:

“There was for the Children of Israel an overseer who watched over them and used to say, ‘Do not eat excessively, for if you eat too much you will sleep too much, and if you sleep too much you will pray only a little.’”