It is reported that Al-Shaʿbī
– Allāh have mercy on him – said:
Stay away from the sinful amongst the scholars and the
ignorant amongst the worshippers, these
two are the calamity of everyone who would fall into fitnah.
Al-Bayhaqī, Shuʿab
Al-Īmān ḥadīth 1753.
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