Ḥammād ibn Qīrāṭ

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim al-Marwazī, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Hammām related to us: They said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Naysābūrī related to us: I heard Ḥammād ibn Qīrāṭ say: I heard Yāsīn al-Zayyāt say: ‘The people of opinion are enemies of the Sunna.’ He said: ‘The people of opinion are the people of whims. As for Abū Ḥanīfa and his companions—may God have mercy on them—they reasoned by analogy on the basis of the Sunna.’

Muḥammad ibn Hammām related to us: Muḥammad ibn Yazīd related to us: Ḥammād ibn Qīrāṭ related to us, from Yāsīn al-Zayyāt, who said: The companions of Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on them—are like mountain apples, which flourish twice each year.