حماد (report 218; identity unresolved)

Muḥammad ibn Yazīd related to us. He said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān related to us. He said: Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfa related to us. He said: My father asked Ḥammād about a man who said: ‘If I marry so-and-so, she is divorced.’ He said: ‘If he marries a woman, she is divorced.’ He said: ‘What if he says: “Every woman I marry is divorced”?’ He said: ‘If he marries, she is not divorced.’ He said: ‘When he makes things difficult for himself, he is given ease; when he makes things easy for himself, things are made difficult for him.’ Ḥammād fell silent. When Abū Ḥanīfa rose, he said: ‘Along with his jurisprudence, this man keeps the night alive in worship.’

Speaker changes are retained without inserting names absent from the printed dialogue.