871 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith and from ʿImārah—both of them—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allah said, “Moderation while following the Sunnah is better than strenuous effort spent on an innovation.”