وَاللهِ لَقَدْ رَقَّعْتُ مِدْرَعَتِي هذِهِ حَتَّى اسْتَحْيَيْتُ مِنْ رَاقِعِهَا، وَلَقَدْ قَالَ لِي قَائِلٌ أَلاَ تَنْبِذُهَا؟ فَقُلْتُ اغْرُبْ عَنِّي، فَعِنْدَ الصَّبَاحِ يَحْمَدُ الْقَوْمُ السُّرَى
His Own Example By Allah! I have been putting patches in my shirts, so much so that now I feel shy of the patches themselves. Someone asked me whether I should put them such patched garments away, but I said, Get away from me! Only in the morning do people (realize the advantage of and) speak highly of the night journey which they had undertaken