Ibrāhīm ibn Shammās

Abū Isḥāq al-Khallāl, a companion of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, said: I heard that Ibrāhīm ibn Shammās claimed that ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak had abandoned Abū Ḥanīfa. This distressed me and I rejected it. I came to Ibrāhīm ibn Shammās almost angry and said: “I heard you say that ʿAbd Allāh abandoned Abū Ḥanīfa.” He answered: “God forbid! I said nothing of the sort.” Abū Isḥāq said: Had Ibrāhīm answered otherwise, I would have confronted him, attacked and rejected his words, and struck him in the face.