the bathkeeper said to me dont you marvel at salih ibn affan? he would come every dawn and enter the bathhouse. if i was absent from the bowl of depilation he would wipe his pubic area and his buttocks. then he would cover himself with his loincloth and get up and wash himself in the midst of the people. then he would come back at the same time and anoint his legs and part of his thighs. then he would sit and wrap himself in his loincloth. if he found someone not paying attention he would wash himself. then he would come back at the same time and wipe another part of his body. he would continue anointing himself every dawn until all of my depilation had gone.
قال لي صاحب الحمام ألا أعجبك من صالح بن عفان؟ كان يجيء كل سحر، فيدخل الحمام، فإذا غبت عن إجانة النورة ١ ، مسح عانته وأرفاغه ٢ ، ثم يتستر بالمئزر ثم يقوم فيغسله في غمار الناس ٣ . ثم يجيء بعد في مثل تلك الساعة، فيطلي ساقيه وبعض فخذيه، ثم يجلس ويتزر بالمئزر، فإذا وجد غفلة غسله. ثم يعود في مثل ذلك الوقت، فيمسح قطعة أخرى من جسده. فلا يزال يطلي في كل سحر حتى ذهب مني بطلية.