23 – ʿAli ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; Shuʿbah related it from ʿAmr ibn Murrah ⦗42⦘ who said: “I heard Abu Waʾil reporting from Kurdus ibn ʿAmr—one of those who had studied the earlier scriptures—who said: ‘Among what Allah revealed in the scriptures is that Allah tries the servant while He loves him, so that He may hear the servant’s humble pleading.’”