مطهر بن الحكم

Abū Saʿīd Uḥayd ibn ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ related to us. They said: Muṭahhar ibn al-Ḥakam related to us. He said: I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid say: I heard my father say: I asked Abū Ḥanīfa about ʿUmar’s report concerning a missing person. He replied: “This is a tale of Khurāfa.” I was told from Muṭahhar ibn al-Ḥakam, who said: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn related to us, from his father, who said: I asked Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba about a man who owned two slave women who were sisters. If he had intercourse with one, could he approach the other? He replied: “Al-Ḥasan used to say: He must not approach her as long as the one with whom he had intercourse remains with him.” Al-Ḥusayn said: That is also the position of Abū Ḥanīfa and Sufyān al-Thawrī. Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr said: I asked al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd, a grandson of ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid: “Does al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid transmit from Abū Ḥanīfa?” He replied: “He transmitted a great deal from him in the Book of Judges.”

“A tale of Khurāfa” is an expression for a fabulous story; no authenticity ruling is added beyond the attributed words.