1940 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to me; Muhammad ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; from Nusayr ibn Dhuʿlūq; from Bakr ibn Maʿiz, who said:

Al-Rabīʿ used to say: “There is no benefit in speech except in tahlīl (affirming Allah’s oneness), taḥmīd (praising Allah), takbīr (exalting Him with ‘Allahu Akbar’), tasbīḥ (glorifying Him with ‘Subḥān Allah’), your asking Allah for good, your seeking refuge with Him from evil, your enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and your recitation of the Quran.”