بعض أصحابنا

I was told from Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā, who said: One of our companions related to us. He said: It reached me from Khārija, That he said: “I set out to seek knowledge with so-and-so and so-and-so. When we had finished seeking it, my two companions returned, while I turned to Abū Ḥanīfa. Had God Most High not helped me through Abū Ḥanīfa, I would have been like those two men: they did not give legal opinions, whereas I did.”