حدثني حجاج بن الشاعر، حدثنا سليمان بن حرب، حدثنا حماد بن زيد، قال: قال أيوب: إن لي جارا، ثم ذكر من فضله، ولو شهد عندي على تمرتين ما رأيت شهادته جائزة
Hajjāj bin ash-Shā’ir narrated to me, Sulaymān bin Harb narrated to us, Hammād bin Zayd narrated to us, he said, Ayyūb said: ‘Indeed I have a neighbor’ and he mentioned some of his virtues, ‘…even if he testified to me about two dates I would not see his testimony as permissible’.