305 - Ḥamza b. al-ʿAbbās narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh informed us: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us: Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh b. Zaḥr, from Khālid b. Abī ʿImrān, from Abū Ghiyāth, who said: We were with Kaʿb one day, and he said: "If a hand of a maiden (al-ḥūr) were lowered from the sky, with its whiteness and its rings, the earth would be illuminated by it just as the sun illuminates the people of the world." He said: "I only mentioned her hand; so how about her face, its whiteness, its excellence, its beauty, and its crown with its rubies, pearls, and chrysolites?"
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