محمد بن منصور

Abū Saʿīd Uḥayd ibn ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ related to us. They said: Muṭahhar ibn al-Ḥakam related to us. He said: I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid say: I heard my father say: I asked Abū Ḥanīfa about ʿUmar’s report concerning a missing person. He replied: “This is a tale of Khurāfa.” I was told from Muṭahhar ibn al-Ḥakam, who said: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn related to us, from his father, who said: I asked Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba about a man who owned two slave women who were sisters. If he had intercourse with one, could he approach the other? He replied: “Al-Ḥasan used to say: He must not approach her as long as the one with whom he had intercourse remains with him.” Al-Ḥusayn said: That is also the position of Abū Ḥanīfa and Sufyān al-Thawrī. Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr said: I asked al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd, a grandson of ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid: “Does al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid transmit from Abū Ḥanīfa?” He replied: “He transmitted a great deal from him in the Book of Judges.”

“A tale of Khurāfa” is an expression for a fabulous story; no authenticity ruling is added beyond the attributed words.

Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr related to us. He said: Ḥāmid ibn Ādam related to us. He said: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was Abū Ḥanīfa’s business partner, and Abū Ḥanīfa would send merchandise to him. He sent him goods with a caravan and informed him that a particular garment had a defect, so he should disclose that to the buyer. Ḥafṣ sold the goods but forgot to disclose the defect. When he returned, Abū Ḥanīfa asked him, and he told him that he had forgotten. He ended their partnership and gave his own share—thirty thousand—in charity.

Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Tamīm related to me. He said: Ḥāmid ibn Ādam related to us. He said: I heard Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say: “I was Abū Ḥanīfa’s partner for thirty years. He would complete the Qurʾan in three days and their nights, and would give something in charity every day.”

Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Yazīd related to me. He said: I heard Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say: “Abū Ḥanīfa knew the Qurʾan by heart and would complete it thirty times in a month.”

I was told from Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr, who said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbda ibn Muslim related to me. He said: ʿAbdān related to us. He said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd al-Kindī related to us. He said: My father had given me animals and other things while I was a boy. He died, and I sold them. We disputed before ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya, who restored their sale prices to me. ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd said: Abū Ḥanīfa said: “Their value.” Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd is a distinguished scholar and a companion of ʿIkrima.

Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr related to us. He said: Abū Yaḥyā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me, from al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad, that a brother of Abū Qābūs said to him: “Abū Muḥammad! What do you say about Abū Ḥanīfa?” Al-Naḍr replied: “On the day Abū Ḥanīfa died—may God have abundant mercy on him—no one on the face of the earth was known to be more scrupulous or more generous in charity than he.”