محمد بن مزاحم المروزي

My father related to us. He said: Asbāṭ ibn al-Yasaʿ related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Muzāḥim al-Marwazī informed me. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Rustam informed us. He said: al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad informed us. He said: I asked Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him: “Who are the people of the community?” He replied: “Those who give precedence to Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, love ʿAlī and ʿUthmān, wipe over leather socks, do not forbid jarrī fish, do not declare anyone an unbeliever for a sin, pray over deceased people who face the qibla, believe in predestination, its good and its evil, pray behind every righteous and sinful person, and utter nothing concerning God.”

Jarrī is the fish named in the source, commonly identified as an eel or scaleless fish; the wording is retained without selecting a species.