أَخْبَرَنَا مُجَاهِدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ مِغْوَلٍ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِلشَّعْبِيِّ : أَفْتِنِي أَيُّهَا الْعَالِمُ، فَقَالَ :" الْعَالِمُ مَنْ يَخَافُ اللَّهَ G "

Mujahid bin Musa told us, Abdullah bin Numayr told us, on the authority of Malik bin Mughal, he said: A man said to Al-Sha’bi: Give me fatwa, oh The scholar, so he said: “The scholar is he who fears God.”