Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim likewise transmitted—through Abū al-Jahm, from Ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī—who said, “I heard Abū Sulaymān, whose name is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAskar.”

Ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī said, “I heard Abū Sulaymān say:
‘Pray behind any innovator—except the qadarī (one who denies the divine decree); do not pray behind him even if he is a ruler.’

I also heard him say, ‘When I was in Iraq I acted, but in Syria I knew (1).’

And I heard him say, ‘Whoever is inspired with some good deed is not entitled to perform it until he hears a report for it from the transmitted tradition (2).’

Al-Khaldī narrated from al-Junayd, who said that Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī declared:
‘A subtle point from among the subtleties of the people may fall into my heart and remain there for days, yet I will not accept it unless two upright witnesses testify to it: the Book and the Sunnah (3).’

From Abū Sulaymān: ‘The best of deeds is to oppose the cravings of the ego (4).’

He also said, ‘Everything has a sign, and the sign of being forsaken is the absence of tears. Everything has a rust, and the rust of the heart is satiety (5).’