Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28251 — Sitting in gatherings

Imam al-Sha'bi said that al-Rabi' bin Khuthaym, ever since he first tied on a waist-wrap, never sat in any gathering, and he said: "I fear that a person may be wronged and I would be unable to help him, or that someone may tell a lie against another and I would be obliged to testify against him, or that I would not be able to lower my gaze, or that I would not be able to show a traveller the way, or that a rider may fall and I would not be able to help him back on."