159 – al-ʿAbbās al-ʿAnbarī narrated to me; he said: I heard Abū al-Walīd say, “I have never heard ʿUthmān ibn Zāʾidah pronounce a single sentence without inserting an exception. He would say, ‘O Abū al-Walīd, if anyone should relate something to Abū al-Walīd…,’ and he could converse with me for the better part of the day and then conclude, ‘Everything that has passed between you and me stands—if it is indeed as stated—God willing (in shāʾ Allāh).’”}