قال كنت بالموصل جالسًا في دكّان محمد بن عليّ بن محمد بن مامة. فاجتاز بنا رجل فقّاعي ضخم غليظ الساقين
These are his words I was in al-Mawsil in the shop of Muhammad ibn-‘Ali ibn-Muhammad ibn-Mamah when a brewer with huge body and thick legs passed by