(6) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Yahya bin Zakariyya bin Shayban from Yousuf bin Kulayb al-Mass’oodi from al-Hakam bin Sulayman from Muhammad bin Kuthayr that Abu Bakr al-Hadhrami had said:

Once Abban and I came to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq when the black banners (revolts) had been raised in Khurasan (Persia). We asked him: “What do you think about that?” He said: “Stay at home and when you see us agree unanimously upon a man, then hurry to us with your weapons.”