70. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Salama bin Khattab, from Hasan ibn Yusuf, from Saleh bin ‘Uqba, from Abu’l-Hasan, Musa, peace be upon him, that he said:

People are (of) three (types): An Arab, a convert [1] and a disbeliever [2]. As for the Arabs, they are us. As for the convert, it is the one who befriends us. As for the disbeliever, it is the one who dissociates from us and is hostile to us.