—who is Abū Wā'il—as his own statement. This is how most narrators have transmitted it. He may have heard it from Ibn Mas'ūd, if al-Husayn heard this from 'Āsim before his memory deteriorated; this, however, is open to question.

Ibrāhīm ibn al-Hajjāj narrated to us: Abū 'Awānah narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Abū Wā'il, who said, “Al-Samad is the One who is perfect