78. 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, peace be upon him: 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, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family: A people’s mawla is from themselves. He said: Glory be to Allah, has it not reached you that the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, 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, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, will he not be from the self of Allah’s Messenger, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family? He then said: Which of the two is more honored: the one who is from the self of Allah’s Messenger, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family; or the one who is from the self of an gross Arabian who urinates on his heels? Furthermore, he, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, 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.