Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Ḥammād

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Ḥammād related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād informed us—Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq’s account was the more complete of the two. They said: ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād informed us. He said: We were in the Ḥijr with Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad when Abū Ḥanīfa came. He greeted him, embraced him, and asked after him at length, even asking about his servants. When he rose, one of those with Jaʿfar said to him: “Descendant of the Messenger of God! I do not think you know this man.” Jaʿfar said: “I have never seen anyone more foolish than you! You see me asking him about his servants, and you say: ‘Do you know this man?’ This is Abū Ḥanīfa, one of the most learned jurists of his town.”

The source first says “I do not think you know this man,” then has the shorter “Do you know this?” in Jaʿfar’s reply. The two forms are not silently harmonized.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī al-Kūfī related to us: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Ḥammād related to us: My father informed us: Muḥammad ibn Ṣabīḥ informed us, from Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—from Wāṣil, from Zayd ibn Wahb, from Abū Dharr—may God be pleased with him—who said: The Messenger of God—God bless him and grant him peace—said: ‘Whoever dies without associating anything with God will enter Paradise.’ I said, ‘Even if he commits fornication and steals?’ He said, ‘Even if he commits fornication and steals.’

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Jamād related to us: My father related to us: Ḥusayn ibn Sayf al-Ḍabbī related to us, from ʿAmmār ibn Sayf, who said: I said to Sufyān, ‘Some people say such-and-such,’ and I had written from Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him. He said, ‘You too, ʿAmmār? You too, ʿAmmār?’ I could see his displeasure.

The unspecified remarks remain unspecified; the source gives no further content for ‘such-and-such.’