Ayyūb ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī

Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd al-Harawī related to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Usāma al-Kalbī, Abū Usāma al-Kalbī, related to us: ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shayba related to me: Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafarī related to us: Ayyūb ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa saw Salama ibn Kuhayl, Zubayd, and Abū Qays al-Awdī approaching him on the road from a distance. Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—hurried [toward them] out of respect. They said, ‘Easy, Abū Ḥanīfa! Such things are not expected of jurists.’ They met, shook his hand, and stood speaking with him for a long time before parting from him.

Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd related to us: Abū Usāma al-Kūfī related to us: ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shayba related to me: Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafarī related to us: Ayyūb ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, who said: I asked Zayd ibn Aslam, ‘What religion did Tubbaʿ follow?’ He said, ‘He was a righteous Muslim, while his people were unbelievers.’