The Buddha asks Sāriputta about the four factors of stream-entry, what the stream is, and who is a stream-enterer.

A disciple of the Noble Ones who is endowed with four qualities becomes a stream-enterer, not liable to states of suffering, and destined for Nibbāna.

The Buddha uses a simile of dust on the tip of the fingernail to illustrate the extent of suffering that is exhausted and overcome by a disciple of the Noble Ones who has attained right view.

Amidst bitter disputes among the Kosambi bhikkhus, the Buddha teaches six principles of cordiality to restore unity, emphasizing shared loving-kindness, ethics, and noble view. The Buddha then outlines seven qualities that when sought out, lead to the fruit of stream-entry and provide the means to verify it.

A stream-enterer has surmounted all fear of bad destinations and states of suffering.

The Buddha explains to the bhikkhus that the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. One who has faith and conviction in these phenomena is called a faith-follower, one who has entered the fixed course of rightness, entered the plane of awakened beings, and is incapable of performing an action that would lead to rebirth in lower realms.

The Buddha explains how one can verify that they are a stream-enterer by reflecting on the five perilous animosities, the four factors of stream-entry, and clearly seeing with wisdom the noble principle of dependent co-arising.

A dying lay disciple, Dīghāvu, invites the Buddha to his sickbed. Already established in the four factors of stream entry and in deep insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and dispassion, he receives a final exhortation to keep his mind on the Dhamma. After his passing, the Buddha declares Dīghāvu a non-returner who will attain final Nibbāna.

Which things should a virtuous bhikkhu carefully attend to? Venerable Sāriputta explains how a bhikkhu at each stage of awakening should carefully attend to the five aggregates that are subject to clinging.