siyar a'alam an-nubala:
al-haytham ibn jamil said: i heard malik being asked forty eight questions and he answered thirty two of them with: 'i don't know'. [i.e., he answered only sixteen; twice as many he replied 'i don't know']
from khalid ibn khidash, who said: i presented forty questions to malik and he answered not except five.
ibn abd al-Barr said: it is correctly [narrated] from abu darda'a that: 'i don't know' is half the knowledge' [lā adrī nişfu'l ílm]
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