When (Imām Aḥmad) was requested by al-Muʿtaṣim (ie: the ruler | IlmTest

When (Imām Aḥmad) was requested by al-Muʿtaṣim (ie: the ruler of his time) to discuss a certain matter with Ibn Abī Duwād (ie: the one who propagated that the Qurʾān was created), he (ie: Imām Aḥmad) turned his face away and said: “How can I converse with a person whom I have never seen at the door of any ʿālim (ie: scholar)?”

وَأَخْبَرَنَا وَلَقَدِ الْتَفَتَ الْمُعْتَصِمُ إِلَى أَبِي فَقَالَ لَهُ كَلِّمِ ابْنُ أَبى دؤاب فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ أَبِي بِوَجْهِهِ قَالَ كَيْفَ أُكَلِّمُ مَنْ لَمْ أَرَهُ عَلَى بَابِ عَالِمٍ قَطُّ

al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, al-ʾIlmāʿ Ilá Maʿrifah ʾUṣūl ʾl-Riwāyah wa Taqyyīd al-Samāʿ 1/28
القاضي عياض، الإلماع إلى معرفة أصول الرواية وتقييد السماع ١/٢٨
https://shamela.ws/book/6030/42

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