1820 – ʿAbdullāh narrated to us, saying: I was informed by Sayyār; Jaʿfar then narrated to us, from Thābit, who said: “We used to sit with Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī. He would admonish us and supplicate, then declare, ‘It has been answered; we have been forgiven.’ After a brief pause he would add, ‘—provided we are truthful.’”