1850 – Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Rahman b. al-ʿAbbās informed us, saying: ʿUbayd Allah b. ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sukkari narrated to us; he said: Zakariyya b. Yahyā narrated to us; he said: al-Aṣmaʿī narrated to us; he said: Abū Nawfal al-Hudhalī narrated from his father, who said: “ʿAwn b. ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd was among the most courteous and most learned people of Medina. He had once espoused irjāʾ but then recanted and recited:

[metre: al-Baḥr al-Wāfir]
The very first thing we leave behind, beyond all doubt,
is the doctrine proclaimed by the Murjiʾites.

They say, ‘A believer may be found among the unjust,’
but believers are never given to injustice.

They say, ‘A believer’s blood is permissible,’
yet the blood of the believers has been declared inviolable.”