Narrated to me Abdullah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Darimi and Salamah ibn Shabib — Salamah said: narrated to us, while al-Darimi said: informed us Marwan, and he is Ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi — narrated to us Sa'id, and he is Ibn Abd al-Aziz — from Rabi'ah ibn Yazid, from Abu Idris al-Khawlani, from Abu Muslim al-Khawlani, who said: narrated to me the beloved and trustworthy one — as for him, he is beloved to me, and as for him, in my view he is trustworthy — Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja'i, who said: We were with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, nine, or eight, or seven [persons], and he said: "Will you not pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah?" And we had recently made a pledge of allegiance, so we said: We have already pledged allegiance to you, O Messenger of Allah. Then he said: "Will you not pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah?" So we said: We have already pledged allegiance to you, O Messenger of Allah. Then he said: "Will you not pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah?" He said: So we extended our hands and said: We have already pledged allegiance to you, O Messenger of Allah, so on what shall we pledge allegiance to you? He said: "That you worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him, and [perform] the five prayers, and obey" — and he whispered a hidden word — "and that you do not ask people for anything." And indeed I saw some of those men — the whip of one of them would fall, and he would not ask anyone to hand it to him.