Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥimyarī related to us. He said: Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Hammām related to us. He said: Hilāl ibn Yaḥyā al-Raʾy related to us. He said: I heard Abū Yūsuf say: ‘I attended Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba when he came to Kufa. He was told that I attended Abū Ḥanīfa. He discussed something with me and said: Yaʿqūb! Your discourse is well-founded. Do you take this from Abū Ḥanīfa? I said: Yes. He said: How fine it is! Later I heard that he went to him privately and discussed matters with him. He told him: Abū Ḥanīfa! Everything we gathered piecemeal from various people, we have found collected with you.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamdānī related to us. He said: Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Marwazī related to us. He said: Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm related to us. He said: I heard Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna say: ‘Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba came to us, and we visited him. He said: Gifts have reached us from Abū Ḥanīfa and from people who used to give us gifts in Kufa. If only you would take some of them.’

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan related to me. He said: My father related to us, from my grandfather, from ʿĪsā al-Azraq, from Abū Ḥanīfa, Ibn Jurayj, Mālik ibn Anas, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan and Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba, that they said: “Whether he reads the book to you or you read it, it is the same, and you say: ‘He related to me.’” He said: Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh said: “When he reads to you, you say: ‘He related to me’ and ‘I heard’; when you read, you say: ‘He informed me.’”