حدثنا علي بن الحسن بن عبدة قال: حدثنا حفص بن داود الربعي ونصر بن المغيرة قالا: حدثنا عيسى بن موسى التيمي قال: حدثنا أبو عمر الصنعاني ـ هو حفص بن ميسرة ـ قال: دخل أبو حنيفة رحمة الله عليه [على] قتادة فقال له: أمؤمن أنت؟ قال: أما أنا فأومن بالله ورسول الله، والموت والبعث والجنة والنار والقدر خيره وشره، وأما الصفة التي وصف الله ﴿إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَعَلَى رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ حَقًّا لَهُمْ دَرَجَاتٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ وَرِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ﴾ [الأنفال: ٢ ـ ٤] فلا أدري منهم أنا أم لا، وقال: أبو حنيفة شاك ورب الكعبة.
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Related to us: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbda; he said: related to us: Ḥafṣ ibn Dāwūd al-Rabaʿī and Naṣr ibn al-Mughīra; they said: related to us: ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Taymī; he said: related to us: Abū ʿUmar al-Ṣanʿānī—he is Ḥafṣ ibn Maysara—who said: Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—entered [upon] Qatāda, and he asked him: “Are you a believer?” He said: “As for me, I believe in God and the Messenger of God, death, resurrection, Paradise, the Fire and destiny, its good and its evil. But concerning the description God gave: ‘The believers are only those whose hearts tremble when God is mentioned, whose faith increases when His verses are recited to them, and who rely upon their Lord; those who establish prayer and spend from what We have provided them. They are truly the believers; they have degrees with their Lord, forgiveness and generous provision’ [al-Anfāl 2–4], I do not know whether I am among them or not.” And he said: “Abū Ḥanīfa is a doubter, by the Lord of the Kaʿba.”
The questioner and respondent are left as pronouns where the Arabic leaves them implicit. The printed final nominal statement “Abū Ḥanīfa is a doubter” is retained; punctuation is not silently moved to turn it into “Abū Ḥanīfa said: a doubter”.
Source · Volume 2 · Printed page 55 · Report 2203
2020 edition · Volume 2
- Printed page 55 · PDF page 56
Narrators: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbda · Ḥafṣ ibn Dāwūd al-Rabaʿī · Naṣr ibn al-Mughīra · ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Taymī (Ghunjār) · Ḥafṣ ibn Maysara al-Ṣanʿānī