196 — Abū Muhammad al-Azdī narrated to me, saying: ‘Alī ibn Thābit narrated to us, from Sālih al-Muzanī, who said: Salmān wrote to Abū al-Dardā’—may Allah be pleased with them both—saying, “To proceed: I counsel you to remember Allah, for it is a remedy, and I forbid you from speaking about people, for it is a disease.”