729. ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Muʿāwiya, from Abū al-Zāhiriyya, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, who reported from Abū al-Dardāʾ that he said:

“Had it not been for three things, people would have been upright: a greed that is obeyed, a passion that is followed, and each person’s admiration of his own opinion.”