Bishr ibn Manṣūr and Seclusion

144 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī narrated to us: Zuhayr al-Sijistānī Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to me, saying: I heard Bishr ibn Manṣūr saying: "I have never sat with anyone, nor has anyone sat with me, such that I stood up from him or he stood up from me, except that I knew that if I had not sat with him or he had not sat with me, it would have been better for me." (1)