حدثنا عبد الله بن أبي أحمد الطواويسي، قال: سمعت محمد بن علي بن الحسن، سمعت عماراً، يقول: رأى مسعر بن كدام رجلاً متعطراً يمشي وذلك بالليل، فظن أنه عروس يدخل منزل امرأته، فدخل المسجد وقام في مقامه وكبّر فافتتح سورة البقرة، قال: فقلت: يبلغ النصف، فيركع فجاوز النصف، فقلت: يختم فيركع، فجاوز، فلم يزل يقرأ حتى يختم القرآن كله في ركعة، فلما فرغ من صلاته خرج من المسجد يريد منزله فلحقته فإذا هو أبو حنيفة رحمة الله عليه رحمة واسعة.
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭawāwīsī related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan: I heard ʿAmmār say: Misʿar ibn Kidām saw a perfumed man walking at night and thought he was a bridegroom entering his wife’s house. He entered the mosque, stood in his place, pronounced the opening magnification, and began the Sūra of the Cow. He said: I thought, ‘He will reach halfway, then bow.’ He passed halfway. I thought, ‘He will finish it, then bow.’ He went beyond it and continued reciting until he completed the entire Qurʾān in one unit of prayer. When he finished praying, he left the mosque for his home. I caught up with him and found that he was Abū Ḥanīfa. May God have abundant mercy on him.
The account changes to first-person narration as printed; no additional named speaker is inserted.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 113 · Report 245
2020 edition · Volume 1
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Narrators: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭawāwīsī · Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan · ʿAmmār (reports 245–246; identity unresolved)