Shaybān ibn Farrūkh and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asmāʾ al-Ḍubaʿī narrated to us, both saying: Mahdī—that is, Ibn Maymūn—narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaʿqūb, from al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd, the freed slave of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, who said: The Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings be upon him, seated me behind him on his mount one day and confided to me a matter that I do not relate to anyone among the people. And the most beloved thing behind which the Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings be upon him, would conceal himself when relieving himself was a hillock or a cluster of palm trees. Ibn Asmāʾ said in his narration: meaning, a walled palm grove.