Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.25.9

19.25.9

This much is certain that, at that very moment, a threatening thunder rent the air with a dreadful crash; and the lightning of revenge and retribution, rushing down from the clouds upon his guilty head, deprived him of a life which he so little deserved. He was found dead, just as he was upon his bed, without any motion at all having preceded his dissolution. Thus did he fall a sacrifice to the Divine vengeance. The flame that had burned that odious man, communicated itself to the servant and to the story-teller, and burned to ashes the rising plants of the existence of those two persons. " Beware of a bad man's company, beware ; " Preserve us from that, O God, as from the fire of hell."