- His saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Do not take up farming, lest you become inclined towards the world." Narrated by al-Tirmidhī (4/264), Abū al-Shaykh in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (298), Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (251/1), al-Ḥākim (4/222), Aḥmad (numbers 2589, 4047), and al-Khaṭīb (1/18) from Shamir ibn ʿAṭiyyah from Mughīrah ibn Saʿd ibn al-Akhram from his father from Ibn Masʿūd as marfūʿ. Al-Tirmidhī graded it as ḥasan, and al-Ḥākim said