Sufyān ibn Saʿīd al-Thawrī

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us. He said: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām related to us. He said: Ḥarb ibn al-Ḥasan related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād and Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with them both, did not make an exception when professing faith, whereas Sufyān al-Thawrī did.

The source uses the technical expression “making an exception” concerning faith. No unprinted formula has been inserted.

ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim al-Marwazī related to us. He said: al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Sayyārī related to us. He said: I heard Bishr ibn Yaḥyā say: I heard Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīra say: I heard al-Wāqidī say: I said to Mālik ibn Anas: “Who was the most learned in jurisprudence of the people from Iraq who came to you?” He said: “Who came to us from Iraq?” He said: “Ibn Abī Laylā, Ibn Shubruma, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Abū Ḥanīfa came to you.” Mālik said: “You mentioned Abū Ḥanīfa last among them. I saw him speaking with one of our jurists until he brought him around to his own view three times.” And he said: “This too is mistaken.”

The final “he said” has no explicit subject. The translation does not assign it to a named speaker.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Balkhī related to us. He said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ related to us. He said: I heard al-Wāqidī say: Sufyān al-Thawrī used to say: ‘Bring me Abū Ḥanīfa’s books.’ I would carry them to him, and he would examine them.

Al-Faḍl ibn Bassām al-Bukhārī, ʿAlī ibn al-Farazdaq al-Marwazī, and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Kassī related to us. They said: al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad related to us. He said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, concerning a woman who turns away: He said: She is kept alive. Al-ʿAbbās said: I was sitting before Abū ʿĀṣim. When he related Sufyān’s report, I wrote it down. Then he related Abū Ḥanīfa’s report, and I held back my hand. He saw me and said: ‘Write.’ I said: ‘I have written Sufyān’s report.’ He said to me: ‘Madman!’—or ‘Fool!’—‘Write. We used to think that Sufyān had concealed Abū Ḥanīfa in his chain.’

The technical allegation of tadlīs is rendered as concealment in the chain, without adding an authenticity judgment.

Sahl ibn Khalaf ibn Wardān al-Qaṭṭān al-Bukhārī related to us. He said: Abū Saʿīd al-Haytham related to us in Samarkand. He said: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Ḥassān related to us. He said: I was with Sufyān al-Thawrī when a man came and mentioned Abū Ḥanīfa to him. Al-Thawrī said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfa has been given skill in argument.’ The man said: ‘Sufyān! If you sat with him, you would know that you have never sat with anyone like him.’ They later met in the mosque of Kufa. When they parted, Sufyān said: ‘I do not think anyone among the Muslims could sit with this man without yielding to his jurisprudence, scrupulousness, and insight’—meaning Abū Ḥanīfa—‘and the time I spent with him increased my illumination and insight.’ Thereafter, when his case was mentioned in his presence, he would speak well of him and would not allow anyone to speak against him.

Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī related to us. He said: I heard ʿAlī ibn Abī Sahl al-Rāzī say: Yazīd ibn Hārūn was asked which was more learned in jurisprudence, Abū Ḥanīfa or al-Thawrī. He said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfa.’

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ related to us. He said: I heard al-Ziyādī say: I heard al-Faḍl ibn Dukayn say: We were with Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl when a man came and said: ‘I heard al-Thawrī say that the shortest interval between two menstrual periods is fifteen.’ Zufar said: ‘Did he say that?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘That was not his view. Abū Ḥanīfa’s view, may God have mercy on him, was conveyed to him, and he adopted it.’

The Arabic gives the number fifteen without an explicit unit; the translation does not insert one.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ related to us. He said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: I heard al-Wāqidī say: Sufyān used to say: ‘Bring me Abū Ḥanīfa’s books, may God have mercy on him.’ I would carry them to him, and he would examine them.

ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn Khalīl al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: I heard ʿĀṣim ibn ʿIṣām al-Bayhaqī relate from Yaḥyā ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥājib, who said: ʿAlī ibn Mushir informed me. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, left this world angry with me. I said: ‘Why?’ He said: ‘I used to sit with Abū Ḥanīfa in the mornings and with Sufyān in the evenings. Sufyān would ask me: “What did the shaykh say today?” I would say: “He said such-and-such, and we said such-and-such.” Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, would say to me: “Why do you go to a man who takes your merchandise and does not thank you for it?!”’

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān and ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim, both of Marw, and others related to us. They said: We heard Abū ʿIṣma Saʿd ibn Muʿādh say: I heard Abū Wahb say: I said to my brother Sahl ibn Muzāḥim: ‘Is Sufyān more learned in jurisprudence, or Abū Ḥanīfa?’ He said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfa.’ I said: ‘Is Sufyān more learned, or Abū Yūsuf?’ He said: ‘Abū Yūsuf.’ I said: ‘Is Sufyān more learned, or Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan?’ He said: ‘Leave this; it has become unseemly.’ Abū ʿĀṣim said: I asked Abū ʿIṣma: ‘Which was more learned in jurisprudence?’ He said: ‘Sufyān was more knowledgeable in hadith, while books and jurisprudence emerged from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan that did not emerge from Sufyān.’

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sallām, Abū Naṣr the jurist, related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn al-Fuḍayl say: I heard Abū Muṭīʿ say: I have never seen anyone among the people of hadith more learned in jurisprudence than Sufyān al-Thawrī. Abū Ḥanīfa was more learned in jurisprudence than him.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayyān related to us. He said: I heard Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ say: My father said: I passed Abū Yūsuf’s gathering. He gestured toward me with a pebble like this, and I sat with him. I asked him questions concerning proof, and he began discussing them. When the questions were finished, I went to Sufyān al-Thawrī. He said to me: ‘Ruʾāsī! What do you have?’ I asked him those questions, and he answered them as though he had been with us.

The printed البرهان is rendered “proof,” without silently replacing it with الرهن as in a related report.

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd al-Hamadhānī al-Bazzāz related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Budayl ibn Quraysh al-Kūfī related to us. He said: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Ādam say: Sufyān al-Thawrī used to examine the discourse of Abū Ḥanīfa and his companions, may God have mercy on them.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Sallām related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sallām related to us. He said: My father related to us. He said: I heard Abū Muʿāwiya say: Our shaykhs used to give legal opinions with apprehension. When their opinion agreed with Abū Ḥanīfa’s, may God have mercy on him, they were pleased. I said: ‘Who were they?’ He said: ‘Among them was Sufyān al-Thawrī.’

My father, may God be pleased with him, related to us. He said: Asbāṭ ibn al-Yasaʿ related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī informed me. He said: Sufyān al-Thawrī used to visit Abū Ḥanīfa. Estrangement arose between them, and he stopped attending. Then he returned and sat before him with his head covered. Abū Ḥanīfa was asked a question and answered it quickly. The questioner said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfa! Will you not consider it?’ He said: ‘I am as certain that it is as I answered as I am certain that this is Sufyān al-Thawrī.’ Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, took hold of his covering and shook it. He wanted people to know that it was Sufyān al-Thawrī and that he was with him.

My father and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sahl related to us. They said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ related to us. He said: I heard Ḥāmid ibn Ādam say: I heard that Abū Ḥanīfa’s companions used to come to Sufyān and debate with him. Sufyān studied their wording and answered them along the lines of what he had heard from them. They told Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him. He said: ‘Do you not realize, you poor fellows, that he is a clever man who takes from you? Put the question to him and remain silent until he answers.’ They went to him, put questions to him, and remained silent. Sometimes he was right and sometimes he was wrong, which distressed him. [Abū Ḥanīfa] used to sit after the night prayer, and some companions would come and debate. Sufyān covered himself with his cloak and went to them as though disguised. He lay down at the side of the mosque, listening without their noticing him. When Abū Ḥanīfa’s companions, may God have mercy on him and them, came to debate with him, he answered well, as though he had been with them. They told Abū Ḥanīfa, who said: ‘Is someone here with us conveying what we say to him?’ They said: ‘No.’ Later Abū Ḥanīfa realized what was happening. Sufyān entered and lay at the side of the mosque, covered with his cloak but with his ears exposed to listen. Abū Ḥanīfa noticed him, mentioned a report, and said: ‘Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, the father of this covered man, related to me.’ When Sufyān realized he had been noticed, he got up and left. Ḥāmid ibn Ādam said: I mentioned this to Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanāfisī. He laughed and said: ‘This is well known among us.’ I mentioned it to Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, but he said nothing, neither affirming nor denying it. He was distressed that day, so I do not know whether he failed to answer because of his distress or for some other reason.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ related to us. He said: Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Isrāʾīl related to us. He said: ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shayba related to us. He said: ʿAlī ibn Mushir related to us. He said: The reason for hearing Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj’s report, ‘A camel broke loose,’ from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, was that Sufyān used to visit him secretly, thinking he did not notice. A question of this kind arose, and Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, said: ‘The father of this covered man, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, related to me.’ When Sufyān knew that Abū Ḥanīfa was aware of his visits, he stopped attending. After that he used to say to me: ‘Bring me his books,’ and he would examine them.

Al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbbād al-Tirmidhī related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥimmānī relate from ʿAlī ibn Mushir, who said: I was present with Sufyān al-Thawrī when a man asked him about water used for ablution or bathing: could it be used again for ablution or bathing? He said: ‘Yes.’ I said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfa says it may not be used for ablution.’ Wakīʿ said: I said: ‘Because he says that this water became used water when ablution was performed with it.’ He said nothing. Later he was asked the very same question and said: ‘Ablution may not be performed with this water.’ He was asked: ‘Why?’ He said: ‘Because it is used water.’

The printed change to Wakīʿ as speaker is retained without harmonizing it with the opening narrator.

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.

Zayd ibn Yaḥyā, Abū Usāma, related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Mūsā related to us. He said: I heard Abū Saʿd al-Ṣaghānī say: I used to visit Abū Ḥanīfa and sometimes al-Thawrī. When I came to Sufyān, he would ask: ‘Where were you?’ I would say: ‘With Abū Ḥanīfa.’ He would say: ‘You were with a man filled with knowledge and jurisprudence.’ When I was with al-Thawrī and then came to Abū Ḥanīfa, he would ask: ‘Where were you?’ I would say: ‘With al-Thawrī.’ He would say: ‘You were with a man whom al-Aswad and ʿAlqama would need, if they were alive.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār related to us. He said: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad related to us at al-Wāshjird. He said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣaghānī related to us. He said: Abū ʿĀṣim said to me: ‘Abū ʿAlī! Do you know how the enmity between Abū Ḥanīfa and Sufyān arose?’ I said: ‘No.’ He said: ‘Sufyān was asked something and answered. It was mentioned to Abū Ḥanīfa, who was asked about it and gave a different opinion. He was told: “Sufyān al-Thawrī disagrees with you.” He said: “What has that boy to do with something like this?” This reached Sufyān, and enmity arose between them.’

Jīhān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan related to us. He said: I heard Bishr ibn Yaḥyā say: I heard Ibn al-Mubārak say: I did not occupy myself with Sufyān al-Thawrī until I had heard Abū Ḥanīfa’s books: his transmitted reports and legal questions.

Jīhān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan related to us. He said: I heard Bishr ibn Yaḥyā say: I was with Ibn al-Mubārak when a man came and said: ‘Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān! I want to go to Iraq.’ He said: ‘What will you do in Iraq? If you want pure, explained knowledge, there is Abū Ḥanīfa. If you want what your companions and those who differ want, there is Sufyān ibn Saʿīd al-Thawrī.’

The phrase المختلفون is rendered “those who differ” without identifying an unstated group.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām related to us: Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUmar related to us: Tawba ibn Khalīl al-Ḥannāṭ related to us: I saw Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad’s uncle; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn; Jaʿfar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jaʿfarī; Abū Ḥanīfa; Sufyān al-Thawrī; and Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ touch the Stone on every circuit.

Names and relationships follow the supplied Arabic, without harmonizing them to other reports.

Ismāʿīl ibn Bishr related to us: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAmr al-Qārī related to us: Salm ibn Sālim related to us: al-Mufaḍḍal al-Kūfī related to me: We attended a man’s marriage contract ceremony in Kufa. Sufyān al-Thawrī, Sharīk, and others were also present. When they had waited a long time, they asked the host, ‘Who remains?’ He said, ‘We are waiting for Abū Ḥanīfa; we have sent for him.’ They waited. When the gathering had gone on a long time, Sufyān asked the host, ‘Has Abū Ḥanīfa still not come?’ He said, ‘No,’ feeling embarrassed before them, and said, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, deliver the address.’ Sufyān said to Sharīk, ‘You deliver it.’ Sharīk said to Sufyān, ‘You deliver it; you have greater claim.’ While this was happening, Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—arrived. Sufyān said, ‘The one who will suffice us has come.’ When Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—sat down, the host said, ‘Deliver the address, Abū Ḥanīfa.’ Abū Ḥanīfa praised and extolled God, then said, ‘To proceed: speech is plentiful, but its sound substance is little. Speech does not end until one puts an end to it. The best speech is that intended for God Most High’s countenance, and the worst is that directed to other than God.’ Then he concluded the marriage contract. Sufyān said to Sharīk, ‘The matter is as you see.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAlawī related to us: Muḥammad ibn Tasnīm related to us, from Mūsā ibn al-Qāsim al-Bajalī, from Zakariyyā al-Muʾmin, from Muʿāwiya ibn ʿAmmār, who said: A woman died, leaving instructions that a third of her estate be given in charity on her behalf, that pilgrimage be performed on her behalf, and that a slave be freed on her behalf. The money was insufficient for all of this. I asked Abū Ḥanīfa and Sufyān al-Thawrī—may God have mercy on them both. Each said, ‘Find a man who has performed pilgrimage but has been stranded, so that he may be supported, and a man working to purchase his freedom who still owes something, so that he may be freed; give the remainder in charity.’ I liked this opinion and told the woman’s family, ‘I have asked on your behalf. Would you like me to ask someone more trustworthy than these men?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ I asked Abū ʿAbd Allāh about it. He said, ‘Begin with pilgrimage, for pilgrimage is obligatory; put what remains toward voluntary acts.’ I went to Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—and said, ‘I asked so-and-so, and he said what I have mentioned.’ He said, ‘By God, this is the truth.’ He adopted it and put the question to his companions. I stayed behind for a need of mine after his departure and heard them discussing it. One of them gave Abū Ḥanīfa’s first opinion. Someone who had heard this declared him mistaken, saying, ‘I heard this from Abū Ḥanīfa twenty years ago.’

The final claim of ‘twenty years ago’ is retained as printed rather than reconciled with the preceding sequence.

Qabīṣa ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭabarī related to us. He said: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī related to us; and Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā wrote to me. He said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Rāzī related to me. He said: Razīn ibn Najīḥ, Abū Thābit al-Baṣrī, related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Mahdī related to us. He said: Abū al-Jawwāb al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Jawwāb related to us. He said: Sufyān al-Thawrī related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, may God be pleased with them both: He was asked how women prayed in the time of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: They used to sit cross-legged, then were instructed to draw themselves together.

This is the second occurrence of the printed number 152. Both oral and written transmission formulas are retained.

Qabīṣa related to us, [from] Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā; and Zakariyyā wrote to me. He said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ziyād al-Baghdādī wrote. He said: Muḥammad ibn Khulayd al-Baṣrī related to us. He said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ṣakhr ibn ʿUthmān related to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, from al-Haytham, from Anas ibn Mālik; and Rabīʿa ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Anas ibn Mālik; and ʿUthmān ibn Zāʾida, from al-Zubayr ibn ʿAdī, from ʿAlī, may God be pleased with him: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, died at the age of sixty-three; Abū Bakr died at the age of sixty-three; and ʿUmar died at the age of sixty-three.

This is the second occurrence of 153. The chain’s conjunctions and printed bracket are retained without inserting missing transmission links.

ʿAbd Allāh said: Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Rumayḥ wrote to me. He said: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Muḥriz related to us. He said: Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr related to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit, from Ṭalḥa ibn Muṣarrif, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwsaja, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘God and His angels send blessings upon the first row.’

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Bukayr ibn Māhān al-Marwazī related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq related to us. He said: [And] Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Balkhī informed us. He said: Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Bukayr al-ʿAṭṭār al-Baghdādī related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq related to us. He said: Sufyān informed us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both: He was asked about a woman who turns away from Islam. He said: She is imprisoned, not killed.

The two printed transmission paths and bracketed conjunction are retained.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿUthmān al-Simsār al-Bukhārī related to us. They said: [Related to us:] Dāwūd ibn Ḥammād ibn Farāfiṣa al-Balkhī, from Wakīʿ, from Sufyān, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both: A similar report.

The Arabic supplies only مثله, not the preceding report’s full wording. The bracket applies to the supplied transmission formula, not the transmitter’s entire name.

Muḥammad ibn Khuzayma and more than one other person related to us. They said: Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl related to us. He said: Abū Muṭīʿ related to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, who said: Concerning a woman who turns away: she is imprisoned, not killed.

Al-Faḍl ibn Bassām al-Bukhārī, ʿAlī ibn al-Farazdaq al-Marwazī, and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Kassī related to us. They said: al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad related to us. He said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, concerning a woman who turns away: He said: She is kept alive. Al-ʿAbbās said: I was sitting before Abū ʿĀṣim. When he related Sufyān’s report, I wrote it down. Then he related Abū Ḥanīfa’s report, and I held back my hand. He saw me and said: ‘Write.’ I said: ‘I have written Sufyān’s report.’ He said to me: ‘Madman!’—or ‘Fool!’—‘Write. We used to think that Sufyān had concealed Abū Ḥanīfa in his chain.’

The technical allegation of tadlīs is rendered as concealment in the chain, without adding an authenticity judgment.

Al-Faḍl ibn Bassām related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr al-Bukhārī related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿĀṣim related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq related to us. He said: Sufyān informed us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, who said: Anyone who has intercourse with an animal is not subject to a prescribed punishment.

Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Thawr related to us. He said: Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdawayh related to us, from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from al-Thawrī, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit, may God be pleased with him, from ʿUthmān ibn Rāshid, from ʿĀʾisha bint ʿAjrad, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both: He said in the report: ‘If he forgets to rinse his mouth and draw water into his nose,’ he repeats the prayer.

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Abū ʿUbayda Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Surayj related to us. He said: Rajāʾ ibn al-Murajjā related to us, from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī related to us. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa related to us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both. He said: And Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdān al-Dāmghānī related to us. He said: ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ related to us. He said: Yazīd ibn Hārūn related to us. He said: Sufyān al-Thawrī informed us. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, who said: When a woman turns away, she is imprisoned, not killed.