Taubah Ambari said that Imam Sha’bi, may Allah have mercy on him, said to me: What is your opinion about that person who keeps saying,“The Messenger of Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said”? I myself sat with (the Companion of the Messenger) Sayyiduna Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, for two and a half years, and except for“this hadith,”I never heard him narrate any hadith from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.