820 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Wakiʿ narrated to us, from Sufyan, from ʿAtaʾ ibn al-Saʾib, from Abu al-Bakhtari, from Salman—may Allah have mercy on him—who said:

“People will remain in a good state so long as the first generation is still present for the later one to learn from; but when the first departs before the later has learned, that is when they are ruined.”