When the news of the death of (Malik) al-Ashtar (may Allah~ have mercy on him), reached Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, he said: Malik, what a man Malik was! By Allah, if he had been a mountain he would have been a big one (find), and if he had been a stone he would have been hard; no horseman could have reached it and no bird could have flown over it. as-Sayyid ar-Radi says: "find" means a lonely mountain (rising in height above the range).
— ALI IBN ABI TALIB