Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7876 — Counting tasbih on the fingers

Ibrahim, the mu'adhdhin of Banu Hanifah, said: When al-Hajjaj ordered that Mahan al-Hanafi be crucified and he was hung on the wood, I was looking at him. He was saying 'Subhan Allah', 'Allahu akbar', 'La ilaha illallah' and 'Al-hamdu lillah', and he was counting these words on his fingers. When he reached the number twenty-nine, he was struck with a spear in that very state. I saw him a month later, and even then his hand was showing the count of twenty-nine. At night a light used to be seen near him.