fallen ill. So we went until we entered upon Abū Saʿīd, and we found him lying on his back, raising his right leg over his left. We greeted him and sat down; then Qatāda raised his hand to Abū Saʿīd's leg and pinched it severely.

So Abū Saʿīd said: Glory be to God! O son of my mother, you have hurt me.

He said to him: That is what I intended. Indeed, the Messenger of God, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, said:

"Indeed, when God, Mighty and Majestic, finished His creation, He lay on His back, and placed one of His legs over the other, and said: It is not befitting for anyone of His creation to do this."

So Abū Saʿīd said: By God, I will certainly never do it again.

54- The Imam and Hadith master Abū Mūsā said: Ibn al-Aṣfar narrated it, from Ibrāhīm, from Muḥammad bin Fulayḥ, from his father, from Sālim Abū al-Naḍr, from Abū al-Ḥubāb Saʿīd bin Yasār, from Qatāda [May God be pleased with him].

And Muḥammad bin al-Mubārak al-Ṣūrī narrated it, from Ibrāhīm bin al-Mundhir, from Muḥammad bin Fulayḥ, from his father, from Sālim Abū al-Naḍr, from ʿUbayd bin Ḥunayn and Busr bin [26/a] Saʿīd, both of them from Qatāda [May God be pleased with him].

And it was also narrated from Qatāda - other than ʿUbayd bin Ḥunayn, Abū al-Ḥubāb, and Busr bin Saʿīd - by: ʿUbayd Allāh bin ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿUtba.

And it was narrated from Ibrāhīm bin al-Mundhir by: Muḥammad bin Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī, Muḥammad bin al-Muṣaffā, Muḥammad bin al-Mubārak al-Ṣūrī, Jaʿfar bin Sulaymān al-Nawfalī, Aḥmad bin Rishdīn, Aḥmad bin Dāwūd al-Makkī, Ibn al-Aṣfar, and others.