repels the disbeliever by means of the believer, and the wicked by means of the righteous.
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Shurayḥī informed us; Abu Isḥāq al-Thaʿlabī informed us; Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Fanjawayh informed us; Abu Bakr ibn Kharjah informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal informed us; Abu Ḥumayd al-Ḥimṣī informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-ʿAṭṭār informed us; Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, from Wabarah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Ibn ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Indeed, Allah wards off affliction from one hundred households among the neighbors of the righteous Muslim.” Then he recited: “Were it not for Allah’s repelling some people by means of others” (1), “the earth would have been corrupted; but Allah is bountiful to all worlds.”