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One day, the said Daud Tai saw a woman near the grave of her son weeping and saying: O darling, I don't know which cheek of yours has been eaten by worms. At this Daud Tai fell down 'senseless. When Sufyan Saori fell ill the details of his illness were presented to a non-believer physician who said: Fear has severed the liver of the man. Then he touched his veins and said: I don't know that there is a man like him in Hanifi religion.
The saint Abdullah-b-A's said: Weep. If you cannot weep, do like that. By One in whose hand there is my life, had you had knowledge, you would have raised such a loud shriek that would have choked your voice. You would have prayed such a prayer that would have broken your back. The saint Saleh Mari said: Ibn Samak once came to me and said: Show me some wonderful acts of your men. I took him to a man who lived in a cottage. We sought permission to go to him and saw him making a mat. I recited to him this verse: When chains would fall on their neck they will swim in hot water and they will be burnt in Hell fire.
The man raised such a loud shriek that he fell down senseless. We came out leaving him in that condition and came to another man to whom we recited the above verse. As a result, he also fell down senseless., We along with our spiritual guide went to a third person. He said: If you desire to make me unmindful of our Lord, then come. Then I read: This is for one who fears My glory and fears My warning. Then he raised such a loud shriek that blood was oozing out from his nose and that wetted his clothes and it became dried up. We came out leaving him in that condition.
Then we went to six saints and we recited verses and they also fell into swoon. Then we went to the seventh saint and sought permission to see him. It was given and we entered and saw an old man sitting in praying cloth. We saluted him, but he could not understand it. I said loudly: Beware, tomorrow the people will keep standing. The old man said: Alas for you. Then he was bewildered and his mouth remained open His eyes went upward

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and he said in a low voice: Alas.'Then That voice also stopped.
His wife said: Go out as you cannot get any benefit from him.
Some days after this, I enquired from the people and came to know that three of them recovered their senses and three reached God. The old man was in that condition for three days and could not do his compulsory duties. After three days, he regained his sense.

People considered the saint Ezid-b-Aswad as one of Abbals.
He promised that he would never laugh never sleep on bed and never eat food having fat up to his death. He was not seen to laugh,or lie on bed and eat food having fat. The governor Hajjaj once asked Sayeed-b-Zubair: I heard that you do not laugh. He said: How can I laugh when the fire of Hell is burning and the chains are ready?