693 - Muhammad ibn Musa informed me, saying: I heard Abu Bakr ibn Sindi, a relative of Ibrahim al-Harbi, say: I was present, or I attended, or I heard Abu 'Abd Allah [Ahmad ibn Hanbal] when a man asked him: "O Abu 'Abd Allah, I have a maternal uncle who has mentioned that he disparages Mu'awiyah, and I sometimes eat with him." Abu 'Abd Allah replied promptly: "Do not eat with him."