Two men from the people of the innovated sects came to Muhammad Ibn Seereen and said:
“O Aboo Bakr we want to narrate something to you.”
He said: “No.”
They said: “Then may we recite an Aayah from Allaah’s book to you?”
He said: “No.”
He said: “Either you two get up and leave or I will get up.”
So the two men stood up and left.
Someone said: “What harm would it do to you for him to recite an Aayah?”
He said: “I hated that he should recite an Aayah and that they would distort it and then it would enter my heart.