"Seek comfort from the earth, for it is kind to you." This was narrated by Abū al-Shaykh in "Tārīkh Iṣbahān" (p. 238): Ibn Rāshid (meaning Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rāshid) reported to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Muqriʾ reported to us, saying: al-Firyābī reported to us, saying: Sufyān reported from ʿAwf from Abū ʿUthmān, who said: I heard Salmān say it, and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. This chain of narration is authentic. Regarding Ibn Rāshid, Abū al-Shaykh said: "He traveled to Egypt and Iraq; we wrote what we did not write from others, and he was a muḥaddith." He passed away in the year 309 as mentioned by Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Iṣbahān" (2/243). ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Ghazzī corroborated him, saying: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī informed us of it. It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" (83) and he said: "No one narrated it from Sufyān except al-Firyābī." I say: He is trustworthy, from the men of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], as are those above him. Ibn Abī Shaybah also narrated it in "al-Muṣannaf" (1/62/2) from ʿAwf from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, who said: It reached me that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it as a mursal ḥadīth in "Kitāb al-Tayammum," indicating that the meaning of "seek comfort" is to perform tayammum. This is what Ibn al-Athīr favored, as his statement suggests: "He meant tayammum, and it was said: He meant to directly touch its soil with the foreheads in prostration without a barrier, and this would be a matter of discipline and recommendation, not obligation." (Kind) meaning compassionate like a mother to her children. It means that from it you were created, in it is your livelihood, and to it you will return after death. It is your origin from which you branched out.