ʿUbayd ibn Abī Qurra

Abū ʿUbayda Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Surayj related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubārak related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn related to us. And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh and others related to us. He said: ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn. He said: ʿUbayd ibn Abī Qurra related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḍurays related to us. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa said: “Whatever we find in the Book of God, we adopt. If we do not find it in the Book of God, then from the Sunna of the Messenger of God; we have no opinion of our own there. If we do not find it from the Messenger of God, then from the Companions, God’s good pleasure be upon them, and I have a choice in that. If we do not [find it] from the Companions, then from the Successors; after that we compete with them.”