Abu Bakr b. Al-Matū’ī said:
“I visited Ahmad b. Hanbal repeatedly for 12 years while he would read the
Musnad to his sons, yet I did not write single hadīth from him. Instead,
I looked at how he guided them, and at his manners and his [fine] conduct.”
(Manāqib Ahmad, IJ, 210)
Translated by Ustaadh Abu Khadeejah SP حفظه الله
3 March 2019, 12:00 PM
