The affliction, and he waited for generation after generation, and no century came but it was more wicked than the one before it, until the last of them would say: "This has existed with our fathers and grandfathers," being mad, and they would not accept anything from him, until Noah, peace and blessings be upon him, complained to Allah the Almighty about their behavior and said: as Allah has recounted to us in His Book.

8631 - Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la informed us by way of reading, Ibn Wahb informed us, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd told us, who said: The people of Noah were not punished while there was on earth any plain or mountain except that it had an inhabitant inhabiting it and a possessor possessing it.

8632 - Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la informed us by way of reading, Ibn Wahb informed us, Malik told me, from Zayd ibn Aslam, that the people of the plain and the people of the mountain were constrained to the point that the people of the plain could not ascend to the mountain, nor could the people of the mountain descend to the people of the plain in the time of Noah. He said: They were crowded.

His saying, the Almighty: "That I should convey to you the messages of my Lord."

8633 - Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas told me, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Salamah told us, Ibn al-Fadl told us, Muhammad ibn Ishaq told me, who said: Among the account of Noah and the account of his people, according to what scholars mention, is that he was patient and forbearing. No prophet encountered more trials from his people than he did, except for a prophet who was killed. He would call them as Allah said: "By night and day, secretly and publicly," with counsel for them, but that only increased them in flight from him, to the point that he would speak to a man among them, and he would wrap his head with his garment and put his fingers in his ears so that he would not hear anything of his speech.

His saying, the Almighty: "And that you may receive mercy."

8634 - Abu Zur'ah informed us, Yahya ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Bukayr told us, Ibn Lahi'ah told me, 'Ata' ibn Dinar told me regarding His saying: "And that you may receive mercy"—that is, so that you may receive mercy and thus not be punished.

His saying, the Almighty: "So they rejected him, and We saved him and those who were with him in the ship."

8635 - My father told us, al-Mu'ammal ibn Ihab told us, Zayd ibn Hubab told us, al-Husayn ibn Waqid told us, from Abu Nahik, from Ibn 'Abbas, who said: There were eighty men with Noah in the ship, one of whom was Jurhum.

8636 - Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la informed us, Ibn Wahb informed us, who said: It has reached me from Ibn 'Abbas.