531 — Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us. Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us. Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, who said: I mentioned to Ibrāhīm—may Allah have mercy on him—the hadith of Abū al-Duhā, from Masrūq, stating that he permitted lying in order to reconcile people. He replied, “They did not permit lying, whether in earnest or in jest.”