2118 – ʿAbdullah narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Yaḥyā ibn Ādam narrated to us; Mālik ibn Abī Farwah narrated to us. He said: “We used to sit in the company of ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Hudhayl. If someone came in and introduced some item of ordinary conversation, he would say, ‘O servant of Allah, this is not what we sat here for.’”