17. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Ash’ari from ‘Abd Allah ibn Maymun al-Qaddah from Abu ‘Abdillah who has said the following: “Amir al-Mu’minin (Ali ibn abu Talib) has said, ‘A believer is easy to associate with and there is nothing good in one who does not associate with others or is associated with.’”