35 – Al-ʿAbbās ibn Yazīd al-ʿAbdī narrated to us; he said: Isḥāq ibn Idrīs narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍubaʿī narrated to us, from ʿAwf, from Saʿīd ibn Abī l-Ḥasan, who said:

When the great fish swallowed Jonah, he assumed he had died. He stretched out his legs, only to find that he was still alive. He then stood up, as was his habit, to perform prayer, and in his supplication he said, “I have set apart for You a mosque in a place where no one before me has done so.”