ʿAbdullāh b. Al-Ḥasan used to often sit with Rabīʿah. One day they were revising and studying various practices from the Sunnah when a man in the gathering said, “[But] this is not what is practiced [by the people].” ʿAbdullah said, “So if the ignorant become so numerous that they become the rulers and judges, will they then be a proof over the Sunnah?” Rabīʿah said, “I bear witness that these are the words of the sons of the Prophets.”
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Rabīʿah b. ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān
Rabīʿah b. ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān, or Rabīʿah b. Abī ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān. Famous scholar of Medinah and a senior mufti there, from the generation of the Tābʿīn. Narrated from some of the Companions. One of the teachers of Imām Mālik. Known famously as Rabīʿah Al-Raʾī. Died 136 AH.
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