Muḥammad ibn Khuzayma al-Balkhī

Al-Faḍl ibn Bassām al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Khuzayma al-Balkhī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmidhī, and al-Ḥasan al-Farghānī related to us. They said: Muḥammad ibn al-Fuḍayl ibn Sahl, the worshipper of Balkh, related to us. He said: I heard Abū Muṭīʿ al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Balkhī say: I heard Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him, say: I visited Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, and he said to me: “Abū Ḥanīfa! From whom did you obtain this knowledge?” I said: “From ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them all.” He said: “Excellent, excellent! You have secured your reliance on the good and blessed ones, may God be pleased with them all.”

The wording “from” is retained without supplying a claim of direct personal meetings with every named authority.