5-42 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father and Muhammad ibn al-Hassan - may God be pleased with them - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar and Ahmad ibn Idris quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Imran al-Ash’ari who linked it up through a chain of narrators to Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB)
“Five groups have a naughty nature: those who are unusually tall, those who are unusually short; the dark-eyed ones whose eyes are somewhat green, those born with an apophysis, and the deformed ones.”