9 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; he said: Surayj ibn Yūnus and Muḥriz ibn ʿAwn both narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated, from Marwān ibn Sālim, from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, from Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said:
Whenever the Prophet ﷺ was informed that one of his Companions had performed some act of worship, he would ask, “How sound is his intellect?” If they replied, “He is intelligent,” he would say, “Then your companion is well-suited to attain it.” But if they said, “He is not intelligent,” he would say, “He is unlikely to attain it.”