Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd, grandfather of Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Iṣbahānī

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Aṣbahānī related to me. He said: I found in the book of my grandfather, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd: He said: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us. He said: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa ask Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad: “How many wives may an enslaved man marry?” He said: “Two.” He said: “Then what is his prescribed punishment?” He said: “Half the prescribed punishment of a free man.”