حدثنا أحمد بن محمد، قال: حدثنا محمد بن عبيد بن عتبة، قال: حدثنا إسحاق بن محمد العرزمي، قال: حدثني عبد الرحمن بن محمد، قال: كنت مع أبي حنيفة رحمة الله عليه فرأى شرطياً قد سَخَّر رجلاً، فذهب ليخلِّصه، فامتنع عليه وكان لا يعرفه، فبطَشَ به، ودفعه الناس حتى خلاَّه.
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUtba related to us: Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ʿArzamī related to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad related to me: I was with Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—when he saw a policeman who had pressed a man into service. He went to free him, but the policeman resisted him, not knowing who he was, and laid hands on him. The people pushed him back until he let him go.
The Arabic uses successive pronouns without naming their referents again; the translation follows the apparent sequence of the confrontation.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 123–124 · Report 286
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 123 · PDF page 124
- Printed page 124 · PDF page 125
Narrators: أحمد بن محمد (report 286; identity unresolved) · Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUtba · Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ʿArzamī · عبد الرحمن بن محمد (report 286; identity unresolved)