Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Khalid bin Sameer narrates that I was with Hazrat Ahnaf at the funeral of Hazrat Dhirar bin Qaqa’ al-Tamimi. Hazrat Ahnaf sat down, so I also sat down with him. I saw Hazrat Ahnaf standing at the edge of the grave and, before making supplication, he praised Allah with these words: “By Allah, I did not know in this way; by Allah, I did not know in this way.” Then he prayed for him.