أحمد بن حفص بن عبد الله

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: My father related to me. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from al-Haytham, from Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥa, from Ibn al-Ḥawtakiyya, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, who said: A hare was brought to the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace. He instructed his companions to eat, and they ate. He asked the man who had brought it: “Why do you not eat some?” He said: “I am fasting.” He asked: “What kind of fast?” He said: “A voluntary one.” He said: “Why not the white days?”

The “white days” are the days around the full moon; the abbreviated wording is retained.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī related to us. He said: Qaṭan ibn Ibrāhīm related to us. He said: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us. Also Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sarakhsī related to us. They said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: My father related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from al-Haytham, from al-Shaʿbī, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: A man of Banū Salima caught a hare. Finding nothing else, he slaughtered it with a flint. The Prophet, peace be upon him, instructed him to eat it.