310—Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Farisi informed us: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Dibaji informed us in Baghdad in the year 328 AH. He said: Isma‘il narrated to us; he said: ‘Amr ibn ‘Abd al-Ghaffar al-Saghani narrated to us; he said: I heard Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah say: Ibn Shubrumah said:

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When you say, “Strive earnestly in worship and be patient,”
they persist and say, “No—disputation is better!”

Thus opposing the Companions of the Prophet and introducing an innovation;
they are blinder and more ignorant of the path of truth.

It was mentioned that a young man from among the hadith scholars recited these verses in the gathering of Abu Zur‘ah al-Razi—may Allah have mercy on him. He approved of them, and I wrote them down from him:

[The Kamil metre]

The religion of the Prophet Muhammad is his reports;
how excellent a mount for a young man are his transmitted teachings.

Never turn away from hadith and its people,
for personal opinion is night, while hadith is its daylight.

How often a young man misses the guiding report,
while the sun has risen and its lights shine before him.