1626 — Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd informed us. He said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir informed us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Sinān narrated to us. He said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us. He said: Sufyān narrated to us.

1627 — Another chain: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb informed us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Ḥarūrī informed us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī narrated to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī narrated to us. He said: Sufyān narrated to us.

1628 — And ʿAlī informed us. Aḥmad narrated to us. Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us. Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us. He said: Sufyān narrated to us, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah.

In the narrations of Abū Aḥmad and al-Firyābī, he said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said; while in the narration of Abū Nuʿaym, it is reported from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: “Faith has sixty-odd, or seventy-odd, branches; the greatest of them is the declaration, ‘There is no god worthy of worship but Allah.’”

In the narrations of Abū Aḥmad and al-Firyābī: “The best of them is the declaration, ‘There is no god worthy of worship but Allah,’ and the lowest of them is removing something harmful from the road. And modesty is a branch ⦗978⦘ of faith.”

Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated it without uncertainty regarding the number.