It is reported that ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib – Allāh be pleased with him – said:
We only used to own a single ram’s skin (leather mat), we used to sleep on one end of it and Fāṭimah used to knead dough on the other end.
Wakīʿ b. Al-Jarrāḥ, Al-Zuhd article 114.
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