“Indeed it is good and I have heard something good, and if I die, then indeed I have written goodness.” – Sufyān Ath-Thawrī

Farqad As-Subkhī رحمه الله said:

“I entered upon Sufyān Ath-Thawrī when he was in the state of illness that caused his death. So a man narrated a Hadīth to him that surprised him. So he thrust his hand beneath his bed and withdrew some writing tablets of his and he wrote that Hadīth. It was asked of him, ‘Do you do such a thing in the state you are in?’ to which he replied, ‘Indeed it is good and I have heard something good, and if I die, then indeed I have written goodness.”

[Hilyāt Al-Awliyā’, 7/64. Translated By Salah Al-Iranee]