٧ - أخبرنا محمد بن همام قال: حدثني جعفر بن محمد بن مالك، قال: حدثنا أبو طاهر الوراق، قال: حدثني عثمان بن عيسى، عن أبي الصباح الكناني، قال: كنت عند أبي عبد الله فدخل عليه شيخ وقال: قد عقّني ولدي وجفاني إخواني. فقال أبو عبد الله: أوَما علمت أن للحق دولة وللباطل دولة كلاهما ذليل في دولة صاحبه، فمن أصابته رفاهية الباطل اقتص منه في دولة الحق.
(7) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Abu Tahir al-Warraaq from Uthman bin Eessa that Abus-Sabah al-Kinani had said: “Once I was with Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq  when an old man came to him and said: “My sons became undutiful to me and my brothers turned away from me.” Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq  said: “Do you not know that the truth has a government and the untruth also has a government? Each of them is low in the state of the other. Whoever enjoys the ease of the untruth will be punished in the state of the truth.”