The Shaykh concluded this address by mentioning a story that scholars relate in the biography of Ibn Battah, concerning the issue of standing up.

The Shaykh : I am concluding this address 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 strongly disliked this practice of standing up that people have become accustomed to today and for hundreds of years before today. So one day he went out to the market with a friend of his who was a poet, and they passed by a scholar sitting in his place. This was the etiquette of 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, and the scholar stood up for Ibn Battah. So Ibn Battah said to his poet friend, "Before that, the scholar stood up, and he knew that Ibn Battah disliked this standing up, as you hear. So he excused himself to him with two verses of poetry, saying to him:"
Do not blame me for standing up, my right *** When it becomes clear that I have no hope of standing up.
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, earlier, that it is the right of a Muslim to honor an elderly man. But should the honor be done in a manner other than the Sunnah? By contradicting the Sunnah? For example, should the honor be done by prostration? No.