Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Stories of people with long lifespans from Arabs and non-Arabs are famous and chronicled in books and history.
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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
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.
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