Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥāzimī

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥāzimī related to us: Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Lakhmī related to me: I heard Ḥafṣ ibn Ḥamza al-Qurashī say: Sometimes a man would pass Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—and sit with him without intending a visit or being a regular companion. When the man got up, he would ask about him. If he was in need, he would give him assistance; if he fell ill, he would visit him, until he drew him into continued companionship. He was among the most generous of people to sit with.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāzimī related to us: Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Lakhmī related to us: My father related to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿUmāra ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ: One night a man had an altercation with his wife and said, ‘You are to me like my mother’s back if I do not have intercourse with you tonight.’ They argued again, and he said, ‘You are to me like my mother’s back if I have intercourse with you tonight.’ He wandered about in confusion that night, seeking legal opinions. He visited most of Kufa’s jurists but found no answer from them. Then he came to Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—and called him out. Abū Ḥanīfa said, ‘At this hour?’ He said, ‘Abū Ḥanīfa, for God’s sake, for God’s sake! This is a calamity,’ then told him what had happened. Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—said, ‘Woe to you, do you have slaves?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Then free one of them, and your oath will have been fulfilled.’

The comparison to the mother’s back is the formula of ẓihār. The report’s terse resolution is translated without adding an explanation of its legal mechanism.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥāzimī related to us: Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Lakhmī related to me, from his father, from Zakariyyā ibn Abī al-ʿAtīk, who said: Rabīʿa ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān came to Kufa while Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī was there. Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—had visited Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd with his companions, and Yaḥyā related reports to them. The first he related was, ‘Actions are according to intention.’ Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—said, ‘We have not heard this.’ They returned to him; he related reports, and they asked him questions. He withheld no report from them. Rabīʿa then arrived in these circumstances. The Kufans visited him and said, ‘Relate reports to us.’ He said, ‘I did not come to transmit reports.’ They said, ‘Then we will ask you questions.’ He said, ‘I will not answer you.’ One of them asked, ‘Did you hear Anas—may God be pleased with him—mention some description of the Messenger of God—God bless him and grant him peace?’ He said, ‘Yes, I heard it from Anas.’ They said, ‘Then dictate it to us.’ [He said], ‘Is my saying “yes” to you not sufficient?’ He did not dictate it to them.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāzimī related to us: My father informed us: ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Bakr ibn Khunays informed us: Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—related to me, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Jābir ibn Zayd, who said: When she gets up from her sitting, she no longer has the option.

The report does not identify the woman or specify the option’s legal setting; neither is supplied in translation.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥāzimī related to us: My father related to us: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hilāl informed us, from his father, who said: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa say, ‘When I find a matter in God’s Book or in the Sunna of God’s Messenger—God bless him and his family and grant him peace—I adopt it and do not turn away from it. When the Companions—may God be pleased with them—differ, I choose from their statements. When it comes from those after them, I accept some and leave some.’