121 – Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh related to me; my father related to me; Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr related to me, from Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd and others, who said:

Whenever Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam spoke of Islam he would say, “It is by the grace of my Lord—not because of what my own hands have sent ahead, nor by my own choosing—for I had indeed been in error.”