English Translation

Hadrat Sufyan ibn Uyaynah (may Allah be well pleased with him) said: I said to Suhayl that Amr narrated to us from al-Qa'qa', from your father — and I hoped he would narrate it directly, thus shortening the chain by one narrator. Suhayl said: I heard it from the same person from whom my father heard it; he was his friend in Syria. Then Sufyan narrated to us from Suhayl, from Ata' ibn Yazid, from Hadrat Tamim al-Dari (may Allah be well pleased with him), that the Noble Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) stated: Religion is sincere counsel. We submitted: For whom? He stated: For Allah, for His Book, for His Messenger, for the leaders of the Muslims, and for their common people.