2 March 19,
12:29 PM
Khalaf said: “Ahmad
Ibn Hanbal came to me to hear a hadīth of Abu ‘Awānah.
I tried to make him sit-up higher but he refused and said: ‘I will not sit
except in front of you because we were commanded to show humility in front of
the one teaching us.” (Tārīkh Dimashq 52/324…)
Translated by Abu Khadeejah SP
