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Kitāb al-Ghayba

Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī

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Stories of people with long lifespans from Arabs and non-Arabs are famous and chronicled in books and history.

246. hadíth

ومنهم عمرو بن حممة الدوسي، عاش أربعمائة سنة،وهو الذي يقول: كبرت وطال العمر حتى كأنني سليم أفاع ليلة غير مودع ‏فما الموت أفناني ولكن تتابعت علي سنون من مصيف ومربع ‏ثلاث مئات قد مررن كواملا وها أنا هذا أرتجي منه أربع

Amr bin Hamama Doosi He is also a long lived human being, who lived for 400 years. Following is his own composition: I have become aged and my age is so prolonged as if I have been stung by snake that is not yet dead. Thus death did not destroy me and I was not destroyed? But years of spring and summer passed on me. I have definitely left behind three hundred years and I hope to live for four hundred years.

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