حدثنا محمد بن الحسن البلخي، قال: سمعت إسحاق بن أبي إسرائيل، يقول: سمعت أبي يقول: كان أبو حنيفة جوادًا يواسي أصحابه المواساة الكثيرة، ويبرّ بهم في الأعياد، ويرسل إلى كل واحد منهم على قدر منزلته، ويزوج من احتاج إليه، وينفق من عند نفسه، ويقوم في حوائجهم، وكان ورعًا زاهدًا، صوامًا قوامًا، تاليًا لكتاب الله عز وجل، عالمًا بما فيه، غاية في الفقه، لم يسمع بمثله في فنه.
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Related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Balkhī; he said: I heard: Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl saying: I heard: my father saying: Abū Ḥanīfa was generous and supported his companions abundantly. He treated them kindly at the festivals, sending to each according to his standing. He arranged marriage for anyone who needed it, paid from his own resources and attended to their needs. He was scrupulous and ascetic, constantly fasting and standing in prayer, reciting God’s Book, mighty and majestic, and knowledgeable about its contents. He was unsurpassed in jurisprudence; no one like him in his discipline had been heard of.
Source · Volume 2 · Printed page 79–80 · Report 2237
2020 edition · Volume 2
- Printed page 79 · PDF page 80
- Printed page 80 · PDF page 81
Narrators: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Balkhī · Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl · Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, father of Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl