حدثنا محمد بن عمر أبو الموجه المروزي، قال: أخبرنا عبدان، قال: أخبرنا عبد الله، قال: أخبرني وهيب المكي، قال: سمعت أبا حنيفة رضي الله عنه يقول:رأيت أيوب السختياني دنا من قبر النبي ﷺ فاستدبر القبلة وأقبل بوجهه على القبر، ثم بكى غير متباك.
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Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar, Abū al-Muwajjih al-Marwazī, related to us. He said: ʿAbdān informed us. He said: ʿAbd Allāh informed us. He said: Wuhayb al-Makkī informed me. He said: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, say: I saw Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī approach the Prophet’s grave, peace and blessings be upon him. He turned his back to the qibla and faced the grave, then wept without forcing himself to weep.
حدثنا عبد الله بن عبيد الله، قال: حدثنا شيبة بن هشام أبو سعيد السرخسي، قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن بن شقيق، قال: قال عبد الله: حدثني وهيب أو غيره، عن أبي حنيفة رضي الله عنه، قال:رأيت أيوب السختياني دنا من القبر فقلت: لأنظرن، قال: أردت أن أتعلق بشيء، قال: فجعل القبلة خلف ظهره، وجعل وجهه إلى وجوههم، قال: ثم بكى بكاء كثيرا، قال أبو حنيفة رضي الله عنه: لقد قف شعري مما رأيته يفعل فما زلت أحبه بعد.
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh related to us. He said: Shayba ibn Hishām, Abū Saʿīd al-Sarakhsī, related to us. He said: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq related to us. He said: ʿAbd Allāh said: Wuhayb, or someone else, related to me, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, who said: I saw Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī approach the grave, and I said: “I shall watch.” He said: I wanted to hold on to something. He said: He put the qibla behind his back and turned his face toward their faces. He said: Then he wept profusely. Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, said: “My hair stood on end at what I saw him do, and I continued to love him thereafter.”
The Arabic has the plural “their faces”; the referent is not expanded or silently changed to the singular.