1171 — Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr informed us. He said: Muhammad ibn Khalid informed us. He said: Abu al-Qasim Ja‘far ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Mu’addib narrated to us. He said: Muhammad—that is, Ibn Humayd al-Razi—narrated to us. He said: Hakkam ibn Salm narrated to us. He said:

I asked Sufyan al-Thawri about this hadith: “There are two groups that have no share in Islam.” He said: “They are those who say that faith is merely speech, and a people who claim that there is no divine decree.”