- "He is the leader of his people, so I am winning them over through him." It was recorded by Ibn Wahb in "al-Jāmiʿ" (p. 5) who said: ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith informed me that Bakr ibn Sawādah narrated to him that Abū Sālim al-Jayshānī narrated to him from Abū Dharr that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to him: "What do you think of Juʿayl?" He said: I replied, "He is poor, like others among the people." He said: "And what do you think of so-and-so?" I said: "A leader among the leaders." He said: "Juʿayl is better than the fill of the earth—or thousands, or something like that—of so-and-so." I said: "O Messenger of Allāh, so-and-so is like this and you treat him as you do?" He replied ... and mentioned it. I said: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim, and Abū Sālim al-Jayshānī's name is Sufyān ibn Hāniʾ. (See the correction number 32/12).

- "These lineages of yours are not a source of pride over anyone; you are all the children of Adam, like the contents of a measure that has not been filled. No one has superiority over another except by religion or righteous deeds. It suffices a man to be foul-mouthed, boastful, miserly, or cowardly." It was narrated by ʿAbdullāh ibn Wahb in "al-Jāmiʿ" (p. 6) and from him by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "al-Mushkil" (4/365), as well as by Ibn Jarīr in "al-Tafsīr" (26/89), al-Ruyānī in "Musnad" (49/2), and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqūr in "al-Qirāʾah ʿalá al-Wazīr" (5/1): Ibn Lahīʿah informed me from al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd from ʿAlī ibn Rabāḥ from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I said: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim except for Ibn Lahīʿah, who is considered reliable in ḥadīth when narrated from by one of the ʿAbādilah, and this is from the narration of ʿAbdullāh ibn Wahb from him, so it is authentic, and this is clarified in his biography in "al-Tahdhīb." It was also recorded by Aḥmad (4/158) who said: Yaḥyá ibn Isḥāq narrated to us that Ibn Lahīʿah informed us of it. However, he said: "Your genealogies" instead of "your lineages," and it was similarly recorded by al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (2/90/2)