232. ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah informed us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawni, from Nawf al-Bikkālī, who said:

“A group of the Children of Israel once passed by Job—peace be upon him—and said, ‘Nothing of what has befallen him would have done so except because of some tremendous sin he must have committed.’ Job heard their words, and on that occasion he said, ‘Adversity has touched me, and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful’ (Qur’an 21:83). Prior to that, he would not supplicate…”