2395 – Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd related to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr narrated to us; he said: Muṣʿab said: My father told me; he said: I heard al-Mahdī say, “Never have I examined a Rāfiḍī (Rafidite) without finding him to be a zindīq (heretic), and never have I examined … without likewise finding him to be a zindīq (heretic).”