نصر بن زياد

Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn ibn al-Naḍr related to us. He said: I heard my father say: I heard Naṣr ibn Ziyād say: I heard Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say: Khārija wrote a letter for me to Ibn ʿAwn. When I arrived, he asked me: “How did you leave Abū Ḥanīfa?” His companions said to him: “He states an opinion today and retracts it tomorrow.” He said: “You are describing a man’s scrupulousness: when someone states an opinion and then retracts it, that is scrupulousness on his part.”