Abū’l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. ʿAmrū b. ʿAlī al-Baṣrī narrated to us, saying that Abū ʿAmrū Muḥammad b. Jābir al-Bukhārī narrated to him among others, saying that Abū Sahl al-Muṭawʿī narrated to him among others, saying that Sufyān b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm narrated to him, saying that Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Salamī narrated to him among others, saying that ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Mubrad narrated to him among others, saying that Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar narrated to him among others, from Muḥammad b. ʿAmrū, from Abī Salama, from Abī Hurayra, who has said: “The Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله would deliver sermons (in his time), and in one such sermon he said the following: “O’ people! Whoever fasts in the month of Ramaḍān in equity and tranquility, and restrains his hearing, his sight, and his tongue from lying, backbiting, bringing harm, or other prohibited matters will be made proximate—on the Day of Reckoning—until his knees touch those of Ibrāhīm عليه السلام, the confidante of the Most Merciful.”