إبراهيم بن علي الترمذي

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Muslim ibn Hammām related to us. He said: ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī related to me. He said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us. He said: al-Walīd related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him: He said that the grandfather does not draw the walāʾ to himself.

The legal term walāʾ is retained. The translation does not add conditions or a legal explanation absent from this short report.

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: ʿUbayd ibn Muslim related to us in Baghdad, from ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, who said: We were sitting with Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad in the Ḥijr when Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, came and greeted him. Jaʿfar returned his greeting, embraced him, and asked after him, even asking about his servants. When he rose, one of Jaʿfar’s family said to him: “Descendant of the Messenger of God! I do not think you know the man.” He said: “I have never seen anyone more foolish than you! I ask him about his servants, and you say: ‘You do not know this man?’ This is Abū Ḥanīfa, one of the most learned jurists of his town.”

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Jamīl ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us in Balkh, from Shabāba ibn Sawwār, from Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, who said: I passed Abū Ḥanīfa sitting in the sun, with shade nearby. I said to him: “What keeps you from the shade?” He said: “The owner of this house owes me money, and I dislike benefiting from its shade.”

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Balkhī related to us. He said: Abū Isḥāq al-Ṭālaqānī related to us. He said: al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid said: A legal question arose for me in Marw, and I found no one who knew it. I went to Sufyān al-Thawrī and asked him [about it]. He lowered his head for a while, then said: ‘Ḥusayn, I do not know it.’ I said: ‘You say you do not know it, although you are an imam?’ He said: ‘I say what Ibn ʿUmar said when asked about something: “I do not know.”’ I went to Abū Ḥanīfa and asked him. He gave me an opinion. I asked him for the evidence, and he supplied it. I went to Sufyān and said: ‘I asked Abū Ḥanīfa; he gave me an opinion, and when I asked for the evidence he supplied it.’ He said: ‘What did he say?’ I said: ‘He said such-and-such.’ Sufyān considered it for a while, then said: ‘Ḥusayn, it is as Abū Ḥanīfa said.’ I said: ‘Yesterday you said you did not know it, and today you say it is as Abū Ḥanīfa said?!’ He was silent for a while, then said: ‘Ḥusayn! There are many like us in Abū Ḥanīfa’s drawstring.’

The final figurative reference to his drawstring is retained rather than replaced with an unstated comparison.

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥibbān related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Aktham, from Jarīr, who said: Al-Mughīra said to me: ‘Sit with Abū Ḥanīfa. If Ibrāhīm were alive, he would sit with him.’

I heard Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī say: I heard Muḥammad ibn Muqātil say: Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd said: Al-Mughīra said to me: ‘Keep to this circle, and you will gain understanding of jurisprudence’—meaning Abū Ḥanīfa’s circle, may God be pleased with him.

Al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbbād and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmidhī related to us. They said: al-Ḥasan ibn Muṭīʿ related to us. He said: Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād related to us, from al-Ḥakam, from Hishām, who said: I was with Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān when Abū Ḥanīfa came. He kept discussing a question until his face reddened. When he rose, Ḥammād said: ‘As you see him in his jurisprudence, this man also has long nights of worship.’

The phrase “has a long night” is rendered as long nights of worship in context.

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Balkhī related to us, from Shaddād ibn Ḥakīm, who said: Misʿar ibn Kidām said: I watched Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, in the Sacred Mosque. After the night prayer, he stood praying and kept the whole night alive. I thought: ‘A man may be energetic for one night.’ I watched him the second night, and he did the same, standing through the night. I watched him a third night, and he stood until morning. I said: ‘He is a man devoted to worship.’

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥibbān related to us, from Khallād ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṣafwān, who said: Misʿar ibn Kidām said: I came to Abū Ḥanīfa while he was standing in prayer. I stood for a long while, but he did not turn toward me. I took a pebble, placed it on his garment, and left. I went away for as long as God willed. [Then I returned to him], and the pebble had not moved. Misʿar then said: ‘We pursued theological disputation with Abū Ḥanīfa, and he surpassed us. He joined us in asceticism and surpassed us. He joined us in jurisprudence and produced what you see.’

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭāʾī related to us, from Ḥibbān ibn Bishr, from Ḥakkām ibn Salm, from Abū Sinān, who said: We used to attend ʿAmr ibn Murra. Abū Ḥanīfa prayed the night and dawn prayers with one purification.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sahl related to us: I heard Abū Yūsuf al-Dashtakī al-Rāzī say: Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī related to us. And Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us: Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl al-Tirmidhī related to us, from Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī. And Jayhān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Fuḍayl related to us: Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī related to us: Salm ibn Sālim related to us, from Abū al-Juwayriyya, who said: I accompanied Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān, ʿAlqama ibn Marthad, Muḥārib ibn Dithār, and ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh—may God have mercy on them—and I accompanied Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him. None of those men spent his nights better than Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him. I accompanied him for six months and never saw him lie down for a single night.

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us: Aḥmad ibn Bakr al-Balkhī related to us: Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī related to us, from Yūsuf ibn Maymūn, who said: Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—dreamed, or he said: I dreamed of Abū Ḥanīfa opening the Prophet’s grave—God bless him and grant him peace. Ibn Sīrīn was asked, and he said, ‘This is a man who revives the Prophet’s knowledge—God bless him and grant him peace.’

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī related to us: Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī related to us, from Sulaymān ibn Manṣūr, from Ḥujr ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār, who said: People have never seen anyone more generous to sit with than Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—or anyone who honored his companions more.