حدثنا عبد الله بن عبيد الله، قال: حدثنا شيبة بن هشام أبو سعيد السرخسي، قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن بن شقيق، قال: قال عبد الله: حدثني وهيب أو غيره، عن أبي حنيفة رضي الله عنه، قال: رأيت أيوب السختياني دنا من القبر فقلت: لأنظرن، قال: أردت أن أتعلق بشيء، قال: فجعل القبلة خلف ظهره، وجعل وجهه إلى وجوههم، قال: ثم بكى بكاء كثيرا، قال أبو حنيفة رضي الله عنه: لقد قف شعري مما رأيته يفعل فما زلت أحبه بعد.
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh related to us. He said: Shayba ibn Hishām, Abū Saʿīd al-Sarakhsī, related to us. He said: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq related to us. He said: ʿAbd Allāh said: Wuhayb, or someone else, related to me, from Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, who said: I saw Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī approach the grave, and I said: “I shall watch.” He said: I wanted to hold on to something. He said: He put the qibla behind his back and turned his face toward their faces. He said: Then he wept profusely. Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, said: “My hair stood on end at what I saw him do, and I continued to love him thereafter.”
The Arabic has the plural “their faces”; the referent is not expanded or silently changed to the singular.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 48 · Report 27
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 48 · PDF page 49
The link وهيب أو غيره expresses uncertainty in the printed transmission. Wahīb is indexed as the named alternative, not as a confirmed direct link.
Narrators: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh · شيبة بن هشام أبو سعيد السرخسي · علي بن الحسن بن شقيق · ʿAbd Allāh (in the Wahīb chains) · Wahīb al-Makkī · Abū Ḥanīfa