Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh said: “Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Ghānim al-Qazwīnī narrated to us, saying that Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Fāris narrated to him, narrating: “I was with Nūḥ and Ayyūb b. Nūḥ on the road to Mecca, whereupon we descended upon the valley of Zabāla and sat down to talk. The subject of the situation we were in came up, and how difficult the matter had become for us, so Ayyūb b. Nūḥ said: “This year I wrote (to him), mentioning some of this”—so he replied to me: “When your standard is removed from your midst, then expect the Deliverance from under your feet.”