61 – ʿAbdullāh narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Yazīd al-Ādamī conveyed it; ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd transmitted it; from al-Aʿmash, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Kaʿb, who said: “Since the time of Noah’s people, no nation has ever arisen on earth without fourteen individuals through whom Allah wards off punishment.” Al-Aʿmash added: “I mentioned this to Ibrāhīm, and he said, ‘It used to be said that if there are five of them, the people will not be punished.’”