1008 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣandal narrated to us; Fuḍayl—meaning Ibn ʿIyāḍ—narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Abū az-Zubayr, who said:

Someone who had personally heard Muʿādh told me that he used to say, “Nothing saves the child of Adam from Allah’s punishment more than the remembrance (dhikr) of Allah.” They asked, “Not even the sword in the cause of Allah?”—and they repeated the question three times. He replied, “Not even if he were to go on striking with his sword in Allah’s cause—may He be Exalted—until the blade broke.”