A story about Ibn Bata al-Hanbali regarding the prohibition of standing up for the one who enters
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The student : Shaykh, has the first discussion ended?
The Shaykh : Yes, it has ended, roughly. However, I would like to hear from our brother 'Abd al-'Aziz, specifically the two verses of poetry mentioned by some of the Hanbali scholars in the biography of the hadith scholar and Hanbali jurist Ibn Bata. Ibn Bata was a learned and noble man who combined hadith and Hanbali jurisprudence, and he was keen to adhere to the Sunnah in practice. Consequently, he disliked this standing up that we mentioned earlier—standing up for the one who enters, not standing up to the one who enters. Some of his companions who dealt with poetry received this from him. One day, he went out to the market with a companion who was a poet. They passed by a learned man sitting in his place in his shop. This learned man was noble, but he held a view different from Ibn Bata's regarding standing up. So, he stood up for him and apologized to him with poetry. He said to him: "Do not blame me for standing up, for my right *** When you appear is that I do not tire of standing. You are the most noble of creation to me *** And it is the truth that I honor the noble ones." Ibn Bata said to his poet companion: "Answer him for me," as if he was saying to him, "Get me out of his poetry, out of his tongue." He said to him: "If you were not to miss me, you would *** Guard my right and show great respect. You have the merit in precedence and knowledge *** And we do not want restraint from you. So, spare me now from this standing of yours, first *** Then I will reward you with standing for standing. And I hate it greatly *** For in it is flattery and sin. And if our hearts are sound *** We will suffice ourselves from tiring our bodies. We eat confident in the love of his brother *** So what is our agitation and for what?" Therefore, the important thing is purifying the hearts, and not exhausting the bodies with social hypocrisy. We have prolonged this upon you, but the merit returns to our brother Abu al-'Abbas for this word.
The Shaykh : Yes, it has ended, roughly. However, I would like to hear from our brother 'Abd al-'Aziz, specifically the two verses of poetry mentioned by some of the Hanbali scholars in the biography of the hadith scholar and Hanbali jurist Ibn Bata. Ibn Bata was a learned and noble man who combined hadith and Hanbali jurisprudence, and he was keen to adhere to the Sunnah in practice. Consequently, he disliked this standing up that we mentioned earlier—standing up for the one who enters, not standing up to the one who enters. Some of his companions who dealt with poetry received this from him. One day, he went out to the market with a companion who was a poet. They passed by a learned man sitting in his place in his shop. This learned man was noble, but he held a view different from Ibn Bata's regarding standing up. So, he stood up for him and apologized to him with poetry. He said to him: "Do not blame me for standing up, for my right *** When you appear is that I do not tire of standing. You are the most noble of creation to me *** And it is the truth that I honor the noble ones." Ibn Bata said to his poet companion: "Answer him for me," as if he was saying to him, "Get me out of his poetry, out of his tongue." He said to him: "If you were not to miss me, you would *** Guard my right and show great respect. You have the merit in precedence and knowledge *** And we do not want restraint from you. So, spare me now from this standing of yours, first *** Then I will reward you with standing for standing. And I hate it greatly *** For in it is flattery and sin. And if our hearts are sound *** We will suffice ourselves from tiring our bodies. We eat confident in the love of his brother *** So what is our agitation and for what?" Therefore, the important thing is purifying the hearts, and not exhausting the bodies with social hypocrisy. We have prolonged this upon you, but the merit returns to our brother Abu al-'Abbas for this word.
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