2359 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād related to us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Maymūnī narrated to us, and he said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remark, “What have they to do with us? I ask Allah for well-being.” He then said to me, “Abū al-Ḥasan, whenever you see anyone speaking ill of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, suspect him with regard to his Islam.”