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ahmad-zuhd:788ʿAbdullāh from my father > Wakīʿ from my father > Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir > Mujāhid > Abū Dhar

[Machine] I wish I were a supported tree, and I wish I were not created.  

الزهد لأحمد:٧٨٨حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ

وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ شَجَرَةً أُعَضَّدُ ووَدَدْتُ أَنِّي لَمْ أُخْلَقْ  


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ahmad-zuhd:913ʿAbdullāh from my father > Wakīʿ > Usāmah b. Zayd > Isḥāq a freed slave of Zāʾidah > ʿĀʾishah ؒ

[Machine] I wished I were a supported tree; I wished I hadn't been created.  

الزهد لأحمد:٩١٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ مَوْلَى زَائِدَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَحِمَهَا اللَّهُ قَالَتْ

وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي شَجَرَةٌ أُعَضَّدُ وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي لَمْ أُخْلَقْ