Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī al-Naysābūrī

Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī, both of Nishapur, and Ḥātim ibn Maḥmūd related to us. They said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: I heard al-Muqriʾ say: People are two men: Abū Ḥanīfa and Ibn Lahīʿa, may God have mercy on them both. The rest are “counted on the fingers.”

The source uses the Persian phrase دست شمار (dast-shumār). Its literal sense, “counted on the fingers,” is retained here without expanding the comparison.