1999 — ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī informed us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī informed us; he said: Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; he said: Ḥafṣ narrated to us; he said: al-Shaybānī narrated to us, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Mūsā, from al-Aswad ibn Hilāl, from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, regarding the verse: “Indeed, those who say, ‘Our Lord is Allah,’ then remain steadfast” (Fussilat 30). He asked them, “What do you think it means?” They replied, “They remained steadfast and never sinned.” Abū Bakr said, “You have taken the matter to its harshest extreme. They remained steadfast and did not go back to worshipping idols.”