حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الصَّفَّارُ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ الشَّعْبِيَّ ، كَيْفَ كُنْتُمْ تَصْنَعُونَ إِذَا سُئِلْتُمْ؟، قَالَ :" عَلَى الْخَبِيرِ وَقَعْتَ، كَانَ إِذَا سُئِلَ الرَّجُلُ، قَالَ لِصَاحِبِهِ : أَفْتِهِمْ، فَلَا يَزَالُ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ إِلَى الْأَوَّلِ "

Yusuf bin Yaqoub Al-Saffar told us, Abu Bakr told us, on the authority of Dawud, he said: I asked Al-Sha’abi, how would you do if you were asked? He said: “ It fell upon the expert. Whenever a man was asked, he would say to his companion: Give them a fatwa, and he would not stop until he returned to the beginning.