1285 — Ibn Abd al-Hamīd also narrated to us, saying: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Hārith narrated to us, saying: Dāwūd ibn al-Muhabbar narrated to us, saying: Abū Awānah narrated to us, from Firās, from ⦗1823⦘ al-Shaʿbī, who said: “Allah—Glorious is His Majesty—reproached all the inhabitants of the earth except Abū Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—when He said: ‘If you do not support him, Allah has already supported him when those who disbelieved drove him out as one of two, when they were both in the cave’ [al-Tawbah: 40].”