1938 – ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz informed us; he said: ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān narrated to us, from his father, from Makḥūl. ḥ

1939 – Ahmad ibn ʿUbayd told us; he said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mubashshir narrated to us; he said: Ahmad ibn Sinān narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Shāmī narrated to us; he said: ʿĀṣim – that is, Ibn ʿAlī – narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān narrated to us, from his father, from Makḥūl, from ʿUmar ibn Nuʿaym, from Usāmah ibn Salmān, that Abu Dharr related to them that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“Allah continues to forgive His servant so long as the barrier has not fallen.”

They asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what is the barrier?”

He replied, “That the soul dies while still committing shirk (associating partners with Allah).”