Ishaq ibn Ibrahim and Abd ibn Humayd narrated to us, both saying: Abd al-Razzaq informed us, Ma'mar informed us, from al-Zuhri, with this chain of transmission. And Ishaq ibn Ibrahim narrated to us, Abu Mu'awiya informed us, Hisham ibn Urwa narrated to us, from his father, from Hakim ibn Hizam, who said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, there are things I used to do in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance" — Hisham said, meaning "by which I sought to draw near to Allah" — and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "You have embraced Islam along with the good deeds you previously performed." I said, "By Allah, I will not abandon anything I did in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, except that I will do the like of it in Islam."