Abū al-Haytham al-Muthannā ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī

Related to us: al-Muthannā ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Haytham al-Marwazī; he said: related to us: Yaʿlā ibn Ḥamza; he said: related to me: al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Marwazī; he said: related to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mughīra al-Baghdādī; he said: related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, from ʿĀʾisha—may God be pleased with her—who said: I used to perfume the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, for leaving and entering pilgrimage consecration, with the best perfume I could obtain.

Informed us: Abū al-Haytham al-Muthannā ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī; he said: related to us: Yaʿlā ibn Ḥamza; he said: related to us: Bishr ibn Yaḥyā; he said: related to us: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Jabala; he said: related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa, from Abū Ṣakhra al-Muḥāribī, from Ziyād ibn Ḥudayr: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—may God be pleased with him—sent him as an alms collector over ʿAyn al-Tamr. He instructed him to take a quarter of a tenth of Muslims’ property, half a tenth of the protected non-Muslims’ property when they travel for trade, and a tenth of the property of people from lands at war.

The fractions are retained: one fortieth, one twentieth and one tenth respectively; no modern application is implied.

Related to us: al-Muthannā ibn Muḥammad; he said: related to us: Yaʿlā ibn Ḥamza; he said: I heard: Bishr ibn Yaḥyā saying: I heard: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Jabala saying: I have not seen any scholar dispute that Abū Ḥanīfa was the most learned in jurisprudence of those people, the most scrupulous, and the most devoted to prayer and worship.