Who said: "Three things made me laugh, and three things made me cry: What made me laugh was the one who yearns for this world while death seeks him"?
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The phrase, "Three things made me laugh," was attributed by Ibn al-Mubarak in his Kitab Az-Zuhd to Abu ad-Darda, and by Abu Nu'aym in Al-Hilyah to Salman al-Farsi.
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