…And were it not for your clan (rahṭ), we would have stoned you...He said: ‘Muḥammad b. Sawwār related on the authority of Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ that he said, “A rahṭ is a group of people while a nafr, is a group of men among whom there are no women.” His words, Exalted is He: