96 – Abu Bakr narrated to me; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ narrated to us; Ḥājib informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Aʿyan related from Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, from Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, who said: Ibn Masʿūd stated, “Let your soul move forward of its own accord and do not force it, for if you compel the heart to something it will grow blind.”