Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīra

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.