654 — Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Umar and Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sawi informed us. They said: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim informed us. He said: Yunus ibn Abd al-A‘la informed us by recitation. He said: Ibn Wahb informed us. He said: Sa‘id ibn Abi Ayyub informed me, from Zuhrah ibn Ma‘bad, from a cousin of his, who told him that he heard ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Whoever performs ablution and performs it well, then raises his gaze to the heaven and says, ‘I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah alone, without partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger,’ the eight gates of Paradise will be opened for him, and he may enter through whichever of them he wishes.”