1630 — ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Khālid informed us. Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to me. He said: Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us. He said: Al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us. He said: Ibn ʿAjlān narrated to me, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “Faith has sixty branches—or seventy-odd; one of the two numbers. The highest of them is the testimony that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah, and the lowest of them is removing harm from the road. And modesty is a branch of faith.”

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1631 — ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār likewise narrated it from his father with this wording.