254. ʿAbdullāh narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Yazīd narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said:

“Among the Children of Israel, whenever a man devoted himself to worship for forty years, revelation would reach him. One man, however, worshipped—without true guidance—for forty years and no revelation came. So he said, ‘My Lord, what is my sin in what my parents have done?’ He kept on imploring until it was revealed to him…”