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muslim:i006Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

I heard Abd ar-Rahman bin Mahdī saying: ‘A man cannot be an Imām whose example is followed until he withholds from some of what he hears’.  

مسلم:i٠٠٦وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ مَهْدِيٍّ يَقُولُ

لاَ يَكُونُ الرَّجُلُ إِمَامًا يُقْتَدَى بِهِ حَتَّى يُمْسِكَ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا سَمِعَ