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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:1-508b – Qatādah > Balghaniá > Abū Bakr
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١-٥٠٨b –

"عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: بَلغَنِى أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قال: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّى خَضِرَةٌ تَأكُلُنِى الدوَابُّ".

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ahmad-zuhd:583 – ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Rawḥ > Hishām b. Abū ʿAbdullāh > Qatādah > Balaghanī > Abū Bakr

[Machine] I wish I were grass that the animals would eat me.

الزهد لأحمد:٥٨٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَالَ

وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي خُضْرَةً يَأْكُلُنِي الدَّوَابُّ