الشاه بن مخلد

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Saʿdī related to us. He said: Al-Shāh ibn Makhlad related to us. He said: Al-Jārūd ibn Yazīd related to us. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa related to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, may God have mercy on them, who said: The first to sit on the pulpit, the first to reduce the takbīr and salutation, the first to bring out pulpits on the two festivals and put the sermon before the prayer was Muʿāwiya. The first to reduce the iqāma, making its phrases single, was Muʿāwiya. He was a stout, corpulent man, and standing was difficult for him when he went out to prayer, so he instructed them to give the iqāma with single phrases.

The printed فربه is understood here as a description of corpulence alongside بادناً; the text is not silently emended.

I was told from Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr, who said: al-Shāh ibn Makhlad related to us. He said: I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Rustam say: I heard Khārija say: I never saw scholars more humbled in any gathering than in Abū Ḥanīfa’s gathering, may God have mercy on them.