76. With this chain of narrators, from Muhammed bin Ahmad, from Muhammed bin Harun, from Abu Yahya al-Wasiti, of the one he mentioned, that he said:

“A man said to Abu Abdillah : People are saying: «The one who is not of Arab origin, nor a clearly declared mawla, is an inferior. He said: And what thing is a clearly declared mawla? The man said to him: The one who owns his parents. He said: And why did they say this? He said: They said it due to the saying of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ: A people’s mawla is from themselves. He said: Glory be to Allah, has it not reached you that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «I am the Master [1] of the one who has no master, and I am the Master of every Muslim, Arab and non-Arab»? Hence, the one who befriends the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, will he not be from the self of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ? He then said: Which of the two is more honored: the one who is from the self of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ; or the one who is from the self of an gross Arabian who urinates on his heels? Furthermore, he ﷺ said: The one who enters into Islam willingly is better than the one who enters out of fear. The hypocrites entered out of fear, whereas the mawali [2] entered willingly."