Reference: Tabaqaat al-Hanaabilah v1 p283, an-Nubath fee Aadaab Talab al-'Ilm p122
said:
There are six [people] for whom I pray in secret, one of them being ash-Shaafi'ee رحمه الله.
Reference: Tabaqaat al-Hanaabilah v1 p283, an-Nubath fee Aadaab Talab al-'Ilm p122
al-Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal رحمه الله said:
There are six [people] for whom I pray in secret, one of them being ash-Shaafi'ee رحمه الله.
Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004.