What is the ruling on one who says and asks: What is your opinion of so-and-so and so-and-so?

The student: Sometimes a person may ask some of the common people or the upright who do not have knowledge: What is your opinion of so-and-so? What is the position of the student of knowledge in that?

The Shaykh : ... We know now that there are heads that are the drum for the people. If one of these asks me, I say: What is the matter with you and so-and-so? Leave him alone. If he is dead, he has faced his Lord, and if he is alive, we ask Allah for his rectification only. But if he specifies and says: What do you say about the opinion of so-and-so? Here I must speak and say: This is correct or incorrect, according to what I have.