ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm, from his father, from Muḥammad b. al-Fuḍayl, from his father, from Manṣūr, who narrated: “Abū ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام said: “O’ Manṣūr! This matter will not come to you except after despair. No, by Allāh, it will not come to you until you have been winnowed. No, by Allāh, it will not come to you until you have been sifted. No, by Allāh, it will not come to you until the wretched are brought to wretchedness and the felicitous to felicity.”