891 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us; Hārūn—meaning Ibn ʿAnbarah—narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad, from his father, from ʿAbd Allah, who said:

“Indeed, these hearts are vessels; therefore occupy them with the Qur’an and do not occupy them with anything else.”