“I Do Not Know”
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Abu Sahl al-Haytsam ibn Jamil al-Baghdadi ( r.a. ) wrote, referring to Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Malik ibn Anas ( r.a. ), in al-Jami’ al-Bayan al-‘Ilm wa al-Fadlihi , “I heard Imam Malik being asked about forty-eight questions, and he replied to thirty-two of them by saying, ‘I do not know.’”