We were told by Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, who said: we were told by Muhammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAbdi, who said: we were told by Zakariyya ibn Abi Za'idah, who said: we were told by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, on the authority of Abu al-Ahwas, who said: ʿAbdullah said: "I recall that we were such that no one stayed away from the prayer except a hypocrite whose hypocrisy was known, or a sick person—indeed, the sick person would walk supported between two men until he came to the prayer." And he said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught us the practices of guidance (sunan al-huda), and among the practices of guidance is the prayer in the mosque in which the call to prayer is made."