حدثنا إبراهيم بن علي بن الحسن الترمذي، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن حبان، عن يحيى بن أكثم، عن جرير، قال:قال لي المغيرة: جالِسْ أبا حنيفة، فإن إبراهيم لو كان حيًّا لجالسه.
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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.’
حدثنا إبراهيم بن علي الترمذي، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن حبّان، عن خلّاد بن يحيى بن صفوان، قال: قال مسعر بن كدام:أتيت أبا حنيفة وهو يصلي قائماً، فقمت ملياً لا يلتفت إلي، فأخذت حصاة فوضعتها على ثوبه، ثم مضيت فذهبت ما شاء الله، [ثم أتيته] فإذا الحصاة لم تتحرك، ثم قال مسعر: طلبنا مع أبي حنيفة الكلام فغلبَنا، وأخذ معنا في الزهد فغلبَنا، وأخذ معنا في الفقه فجاء بما ترَون.
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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.’