148 – Ismaʿil narrated to me; Zakariyya ibn ʿAdi narrated to us, from Makhlad ibn Husayn, from al-Salt ibn Fayruz, from al-Hasan, who said: I asked him—or he was asked—“What of a man who never holds back from sin, yet whose tongue is never still from remembering Allah?” He bowed his head for a long while and then said, “That is indeed a fine aid.”