67 – … Abū Jaʿfar al-Madinī narrated, from a Qurayshī elder, who said that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar remarked: “Whatever the people of benevolence have already advanced, they have actually advanced to their own selves; it is therefore unfitting for them to seek anyone’s gratitude for a kindness they have, in truth, done for themselves.”