Talmud zu Jeschijahu 49:4

When Rebbi Abbahu expired, the pillars of Caesarea were crying. The Samaritans said, they only are making a joyful noise²⁷Since R. Abbahu was the driving force behind the permanent separation of Jews and Samaritans (Halakhah 5:3, Babli Hulin 6a.). The Jews told them, do the outsiders know what sound the insiders make? When Rebbi Abbahu expired, they had thirteen rivers of balsamum flowing before him. He asked them²⁸The angels. The next paragraph implies that he saw his reward before his death, and explains the euphemism “expired” (really “slept”) for “died”. Gen. rabba63(3). A similar story is in the Babli, Taˋanit 25a, referring to R. Eleazar., for whom are these? They told him, they are yours. He said to them, all of this is for Abbahu, and I said. in vain I labored²⁹Is. 49:4. Gen. rabba 63(3)., etc.