حدثنا أحمد بن محمد، قال: حدثنا جعفر بن محمد بن هشام، قال: حدثنا محمد بن إسماعيل العطّار، قال: حدثني إبراهيم بن الحكم بن ظهير، عن أبيه، عن أبي حنيفة رضوان الله عليه، قال: قال رجل لزيد بن علي: قضى الله المعاصي؟ قال: أفعصى قسراً؟ فقال أبو حنيفة رحمة الله عليه: ما رأيت جواباً أسرع منه.
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām related to us: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAṭṭār related to us: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Ẓuhayr related to me, from his father, from Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—who said: A man said to Zayd ibn ʿAlī, ‘Did God decree sins?’ He said, ‘Was He then disobeyed by compulsion?’ Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—said, ‘I have never seen a quicker answer.’
The terse rhetorical question retains its ambiguity rather than adding a developed theological explanation.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 203 · Report 520
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 203 · PDF page 204
Narrators: أحمد بن محمد (report 520; identity unresolved) · Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām · Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAṭṭār · Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Ẓuhayr · al-Ḥakam ibn Ẓuhayr · Abū Ḥanīfa