1156 – Abū Bakr ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Hamīd al-Wāsitī reported to us: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd al-Qattān and Muhammad ibn Rizq Allah al-Kalwadhānī reported to us; they both said: Husayn ibn ‘Alī al-Ju‘fī reported to us: Mujammi‘ ibn Yahyā reported to us, from Sa‘īd ibn Abī Burda, from Abū Burda, from Abū Mūsā, who said: We prayed the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said, “The stars are a safeguard for the sky; when the stars are gone, the sky will be overtaken by what it has been promised. I am a safeguard for my Companions; when I am gone, my Companions will be overtaken by what they have been promised. And my Companions are a safeguard for my nation; when my Companions are gone, my nation will be overtaken by what it has been promised.”