ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: ʿAlī ibn Abī Maryam related to me, from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, who said: I heard Abū Jaʿfar—a devout worshipper I once saw in Mecca in the company of Qādim al-Daylamī—say: “It used to be said, ‘Rely on Allah, and sustenance will be brought to you without toil and without contrivance.’”