What has come in Reference to this World and One who Seeks it — Hadith 9

9. ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Mughīrah narrated from Ṭalḥah ibn Zayd, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said, “This world appeared to ʿĪsā (a) in the for of a blue-eyed woman. He asked her, ‘How many have you married? ’ She said, ‘Many. ’ He asked, ‘Did you divorce them all? ’ She said, ‘Rather, I killed them all! ’ He said, ‘Then woe to your remaining spouses! How can they not take lesson from those who have passed? ’” Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) [then] said, “The example of this world is like the salty sea – every time a thirsty person drinks from it, it increases his thirst, until it kills him. ”