Hajjaj b. Artata reported from Isma’il: Do not sit in the place of honour of anyone except with his permission.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 2, Hadith 194
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Abu Dawud said: Yahya al-Qattan narrated from Shu’bah in a similar way, i.e. the earliest of them in recitation.

Sunan Abi Dawud Book 2, Hadith 193 Next Hadith → The one of you who knows most of the Quran should act as your imam. I knew the Quran better than most of them because I had memorized it. They, therefore, put me in front of them, and I would lead them in prayer. I wore a small yellow mantle which, when I prostrated myself, went up on me, and a woman of the clan said: Cover the back side of your leader from us. So they bought an ‘Ammani shirt for me, and I have never been so pleased about anything after embracing Islam as I was about that (shirt). I used to lead them in prayer and I was only seven or eight year old.

Sunan Abi Dawud Book 2, Hadith 195