in the language of the Quran, is the report of Ibn Mas‘ūd, transmitted by Ibn Abī Hātim through Abū Ja‘far, from al-Rabī‘ ibn Anas, from Abū al-‘Āliyah, from ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd, concerning the words of Allah Most High:

“O you who believe, take care of yourselves. Those who go astray cannot harm you if you are rightly guided.” [al-Mā’idah 105]

He said: “They were sitting with ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd when a quarrel of the kind that occurs between people broke out between two men, until each sprang at the other. One of those sitting with ‘Abd Allāh said, ‘Should I not get up and enjoin them to do what is right and forbid them from doing what is wrong?’ Another sitting beside him said, ‘Attend to yourself, for Allah Most High