The Meccan Revelations: Page 151 from Volume One

Among the scholars of this nation who preserve the affairs of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the secrets of his knowledge, such as Ali, Ibn Abbas, Salman, Abu Hurairah, and Hudhayfah, and among the followers, such as Al-Hasan Al-Basri, Malik bin Dinar, Banan Al-Hammal, Ayyub Al-Sakhtiani, and those descended from them in time, such as Shayban Al-Ra’i, Faraj Al-Aswad Al-Muammar, Al-Fudayl Ibn Ayadh, Dhul-Nun Al-Misri, and those who descended from them. Such as Al-Junaid, Al-Tastari, and those who follow the example of these people who are masters in preserving the prophetic state, worldly knowledge, and divine secret. The secrets of the keepers of the ruling are halted in the Throne at the feet, since they did not have a prophetic state that gives a divine secret or worldly knowledge. The secrets of guarding the prophetic state and worldly knowledge from the scholars of the preservation of the ruling and others are halted at the Throne. And some of them have