6 - And it was narrated to me from Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiya al-Anmāṭī, saying: Khalaf ibn Khalīfa narrated to us, from Layth, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbayda, ⦗24⦘ from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, said: “Indeed, the best life we have attained was through patience; and if patience were a man, he would be noble.”