25—Abd al-Rahmān ibn Sālih narrated to us: al-Husayn ibn Alī al-Jufī narrated to us, from Maqil ibn Ubayd Allah al-Jazarī, who said:
“When the scholars met, they would counsel one another with these words; and when they were apart, they would write them to one another: Whoever rectifies his inward state, Allah will rectify his outward state. Whoever rectifies what lies between himself and Allah, Allah will suffice him concerning what lies between himself and other people. And whoever devotes his concern to the affairs of his Hereafter, Allah will suffice him concerning the affairs of his worldly life.”
26—Surayj ibn Yūnus narrated to me: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us, from al-Awzāī, from Bilāl ibn Sad, who said:
“Do not be a friend of Allah in public while being His enemy in private(1).”
[25] Al-Husayn ibn Alī ibn al-Walīd al-Jufī was a reliable and devout narrator. He died in 203 or 204 AH at the age of eighty-four or eighty-five; *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 6/449, and *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 167.
Maqil ibn Ubayd Allah al-Jazarī, Abū Abd Allah al-Absī, their client, of Harrān, was truthful but prone to error. He died in 188 AH; *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 10/234, and *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 540.
[26] Al-Walīd ibn Muslim al-Qurashī, their client, Abū al-Abbās al-Dimashqī, was reliable but practiced *tadlīs* (concealment in transmission). He died at the end of 194 or the beginning of 195 AH; *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 584.
Bilāl ibn Sad ibn Tamīm al-Asharī—also said to have been al-Kindī—was to Syria what al-Hasan al-Basrī was to Iraq. He was Syria’s leading Quran reciter and had a powerful voice. Al-Awzāī said: “Bilāl ibn Sad attained a level of worship that we have not heard anyone else in the Muslim community was capable of: he performed one thousand units of prayer every day and night.”
(1) Cited by al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 4/294.