1037 - Mansur ibn al-Walid informed me that Ja'far ibn Muhammad narrated to them, saying: I heard Abu 'Abd Allah [Ahmad ibn Hanbal] when a man from Khurasan asked him, saying: "We have some people among us who say: Faith is speech without action, and some who say: It is speech and action." He replied: "Do they not read from the Book of Allah: {And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion} [Al-Bayyinah: 5]?"