173 – Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn narrated to me; ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; from Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir; from Sallām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ, who said:

We visited al-Huwayrith—one of the senior shaykhs of Basra—who had just returned from the Hajj. He kept saying, “Allah bestowed on us during our journey such-and-such,” and then added, “Indeed, to enumerate blessings is itself an act of gratitude.”