Hadith 240
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It is narrated that Rabi lived till the time of Abdul Malik bin Marwan and it is a well known report that Marwan said to him
Explain how you spent your life. He replied: I lived comfortably as a Christian for two hundred years and lived for one hundred and twenty years during the period of ignorance and sixty years in Islam. Afterwards Abdul Malik said to him: Luck was with you. His story is well known. When he reached the age of three hundred years, he composed the following poem: When it is winter, you must warm me up, because winter definitely proves lethal for the aged. But when the winter goes away, only a thin trouser and cloak is sufficient. When a person lives for two hundred years, his desires and youth disappear.
وروي أنه عاش إلى أيام عبد الملك بن مروان،وخبره معروف فإنه
قال له: فصل لي عمرك. قال: عشت مائتي سنة في فترة عيسى، وعشرين ومائة سنة في الجاهلية، وستين في الإسلام. فقال له: لقد طلبك جد غير عاثر. وأخباره معروفة، وهو الذي يقول وقد طعن في ثلاثمائة سنة: أصبح مني الشباب قد حسرا إن يناعني فقد ثوى عصرا والأبيات معروفة. وهو الذي يقول: إذا كان الشتاء فأدفئوني فإن الشيخ يهدمه الشتاء فأما حين يذهب كل قر فسربال خفيف أو رداء إذا عاش الفتى مائتين عاما فقد أودى المسرة والفتاء
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