لم أر مثل أبي جعفر الطرسوسي زار قوما فأكرموه وطيّبوه، وجعلوا في شاربه وسبلته غالية، فحكّته شفته العليا، فأدخل إصبعه فحكها من باطن الشفة، مخالفة أن تأخذ إصبعه من الغالية شيئا إذا حكتها من فوق
Abu Ja‘far Tartousi was incomparable. He once visited some friends who generously rubbed a little musk on his beard and moustache for him. Suddenly developing an itch on his top lip, he put his finger in his mouth and rubbed his lip from the inside, afraid that if he rubbed from the outside, he would remove some of the musk from his moustache