1246 — Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUthmān informed us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān informed us; he said: Bishr ibn Mūsā related to us; he said: Muʿāwiyah related to us; he said: Abū Isḥāq related to us, from al-Awzāʿī, who said:

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz wrote a letter to one of his sons, in which he wrote:

“I ask Allah, in Whose hand are hearts, and Who brings about within them whatever He wills of guidance and misguidance.”