239—Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Bakr informed us. Al-Hasan ibn Uthman narrated to us ⦗150⦘. Ya‘qub ibn Sufyan narrated to us. Amr ibn Uthman narrated to us. Baqiyyah narrated to us. Thabit ibn al-‘Ajlan said:
“I met Anas ibn Malik, Ibn al-Musayyib, al-Hasan al-Basri, Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, al-Sha‘bi, Ibrahim al-Nakha‘i, ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah, Tawus, Mujahid, Abdullah ibn Abi Mulaykah, al-Zuhri, Makhul, al-Qasim Abu Abd al-Rahman, ‘Ata’ al-Khurasani, Thabit al-Bunani, al-Hakam ibn ‘Utaybah, Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, Hammad, Muhammad ibn Sirin, and Abu ‘Amir”—who had met Abu Bakr al-Siddiq—“as well as Yazid al-Raqashi and Sulayman ibn Musa. All of them instructed me to remain with the main body of the Muslims and forbade me from associating with the people of religious innovations.”
Baqiyyah said: “Then he wept and said, ‘My nephew, there is no deed for which I have greater hope, nor any in which I have greater confidence, than walking to this mosque’”—meaning the Mosque of the Gate.