al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Walīd al-Ḥalwānī, father of Muḥammad

Related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Balkhī; he said: related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Walīd al-Ḥulwānī; he said: related to us: my father, from my grandfather, from Abū Ḥanīfa, who said: I asked Qatāda about a man who made a vow involving disobedience. He said: “Its expiation is to abandon it.” I said to him: “God, mighty and majestic, said in His Book: ‘Those who pronounce ẓihār against their wives and then return to what they said must free a slave before they touch one another’ [al-Mujādila 3]. This is disobedience, yet God has assigned expiation for it.” He said: “I see you are a man of doctrinal passions. I shall not give you a legal opinion as long as I know you.” I said to him: “I have roused you from heedlessness, and you become angry with me. I too shall not ask you again.”

Ẓihār is a husband’s prohibited comparison of his wife to a permanently unmarriageable female relative.

Related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan; he said: related to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Walīd; he said: related to us: my father, from my grandfather, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from Ghālib ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿĀṣim ibn Ḍamra, from ʿAlī—may God be pleased with him—who said: Someone who leads people in prayer while in a state of major ritual impurity must repeat it, and they must repeat it.