86 — Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Jawzī informed us, saying: Dāwūd ibn Rushayd narrated to us, saying: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us, from Thawr ibn Yazīd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAmr al-Sulamī and Hujr al-Kalāʿī, who said: We entered upon al-ʿIrbād ibn Sāriya—the one concerning whom the following was revealed: “Nor upon those who came to you that you might provide them with mounts” [al-Tawba 9:92]—to the end of the verse. He was ill, so we said to him, “We have come to visit you, attend you in your illness, and learn from you.” Al-ʿIrbād said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—performed the dawn prayer ⦗401⦘, then turned to us and delivered an eloquent exhortation that caused eyes to shed tears and hearts to tremble. Someone said, “O Messenger of Allah, this is surely the exhortation of one bidding farewell, so what do you enjoin upon us?” He said, “I enjoin you to fear Allah and to hear and obey, even if the one in authority is an Abyssinian slave. Whoever among you lives after me will see much disagreement. You must therefore adhere to my sunnah and the sunnah of ⦗402⦘ the rightly guided caliphs. Bite onto it with your molar teeth. Beware of newly introduced matters, for every newly introduced matter is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance.”
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87 — Abū al-Fadl Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Sandalī also narrated to us, saying: al-Fadl ibn Ziyād narrated to us, saying: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us, saying: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us, saying: Thawr ibn Yazīd narrated to us, and he related the same hadith in its entirety.