57 – Al-Qāsim ibn Hāshim narrated to me; he said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us; he said: ʿUtbah ibn Ḍamrah ibn Ḥabīb, from his father, said:

“Do not be impressed by the abundance of anyone’s prayer or fasting; rather, look to his waraʿ (scrupulous God-wariness). If he is truly waraʿ along with whatever acts of worship Allah has granted him, then he is genuinely a servant of Allah.”