He concluded this speech by mentioning a story that the scholars of knowledge relate in the biography of "Abu 'Abdullah ibn Battah," which concerns the issue of standing up.

The Shaykh : I am concluding this speech with a story that contains knowledge, novelty, and benefit. The historians mention in the biography of "Abu 'Abdullah ibn Battah"—one of the great scholars of hadith and the Hanbali school—that he detested this standing up, which people have become accustomed to today and for hundreds of years before today, with the strongest detestation. One day, he went out to the market with a friend of his who was a poet. They passed by a scholar sitting in his shop. This was the etiquette of the scholars in the past; they relied on the labor of their hands and the sweat of their brows to earn their livelihood. They passed by this scholar and greeted him. The scholar stood up for Ibn Battah. Ibn Battah said to his poet friend, "Earlier, the scholar stood up, knowing that Ibn Battah detests this standing up, just as you hear now." So he excused himself to him with two verses of poetry, saying to him:
Do not blame me for standing up, for my right *** when you appear is that I not tire of standing.
You are the most noble of creation to me, *** and it is the truth that I honor the noble ones.
The scholar's words are partly correct. It is his right to honor the noble ones. We mentioned a hadith, or rather two hadiths, just now. It is the right of a Muslim to honor an elderly man. But is honoring done by other than the Sunnah? By contradicting the Sunnah? For example, is honoring done by prostration? No.