73. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from Ali bin Hakam, from Dawud bin Huss’ain, from Ya’qoub bin Shu’aib, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said: I said to him: A man who remains among those who claim our cause will keep saying to the one whom Allah has favoured with Islam:

«O Nabataean». He said: Then he, peace be upon him, said: We, the Household, and the Nabataean are from the progeny of Ibrahim. They are only two spurts from that which gushes out, that is water and mud, and it does not harm him in his progeny at all. Hence, they are a people who derived knowledge, and we are them.