Zirr bin Hubaish said: "I came to Safwan bin 'Assal Al-Muradi so he said to me: 'What has brought you, O Zirr?’ So I said: 'The desire for knowledge.’ So he said: 'It has been conveyed to me that the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, out of pleasure with what he is doing.’" He said: "So I said to him: 'Indeed there is something wavering’ - or - 'some doubt in my chest concerning wiping over the Khuff after defecation. So have you retained anything from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning that?’ He said: 'Yes, when we were travelers, he ﷺ used to order us not to remove our Khuff for three days and nights, except from sexual impurity, but not from defecation, urination, and sleep.’" He said: "So I said: 'So have you memorized anything from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning love?’ He said: 'Yes, we were in one of our journeys with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a man, a harsh, foolish Bedouin, who had been at the end of the group, called him with a loud voice, saying: "O Muhammad! O Muhammad!" So the people said to him "Mah! Indeed, you have been prohibited from this". So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ responded to him with similar to his voice: "Come". So he said: "A man loves a people but he has not reached them?" He said: 'So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A man is with whomever he loves".’ Zirr said: "He did not cease reporting to me until he had reported that Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, has appointed a gate in the west - its width is the distance of a seventy-year journey - for repentance: it shall not be locked until the sun rises from its direction, and that is the Statement of Allah, Blessed be He and Most High, of the Ayah: The Day some of the signs of your Lord come, no soul shall be benefited by its believing".