ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Hamadhānī related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim related to us. He said: My father related to us. He said: Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, who said: We mentioned selling a cat in the presence of ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, and he did not find fault with it.

The spelling الهمذاني is retained as al-Hamadhānī, without changing it to a different nisba.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us: al-Faḍl ibn Yūsuf related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿUkkāsha related to us: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Rajāʾ related to us, from Layth ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who said: Abū Ḥanīfa and I entered upon ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ. He asked him what constituted ‘such sacrificial offering as is readily available.’ He said, ‘A sheep.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan related to us: Ghawth ibn al-Mubārak related to us: Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—say, ‘We have never seen anyone more generous to sit with than ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Mustawrid related to us: Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī related to us: al-Waḍḍāḥ ibn Budayl related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ: The Messenger of God—God bless him and his family and grant him peace—performed the brisk walk from the Stone to the Stone.

The repeated ‘Stone’ is retained as supplied; the report does not name a different endpoint.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʿīd ibn Mirdās al-Tirmidhī related to us: Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Tirmidhī related to us: Zāfir ibn Sulaymān related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ: A man among the Prophet’s companions—God bless him and grant him peace, and may He be pleased with them—related to him that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥa instructed the shepherdess to care for a particular sheep he had identified for her and fatten it. When the sheep had grown fat, the shepherdess lost it, and he slapped her. He mentioned this to the Messenger of God—God bless him and grant him peace. The Prophet—God bless him and grant him peace—regarded it as grave and said, ‘You strike the face of a believing woman!’ He said, ‘She is a black shepherdess.’ The Prophet—God bless him and grant him peace—sent for her and asked, ‘Where is God?’ She said, ‘In heaven.’ He said, ‘Who am I?’ She said, ‘You are God’s Messenger—God bless him and grant him peace.’ He said, ‘She is a believer.’ He then freed her. Zāfir said: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—relate from ʿAṭāʾ that he said, ‘Call yourselves believers, but do not say, “We are among the people of Paradise.” This was the position on which I left Muḥammad’s companions: they used to say that faith is affirmation, and that sins do not render those who commit them unbelievers.’