حدثنا أحمد بن أبي صالح، قال: حدثنا أبو عبد الله، قال: سمعت الواقدي، يقول: كان سفيان يقول: جئني بكتب أبي حنيفة رحمه الله، فأحمل إليه فينظر فيها.
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Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ related to us. He said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: I heard al-Wāqidī say: Sufyān used to say: ‘Bring me Abū Ḥanīfa’s books, may God have mercy on him.’ I would carry them to him, and he would examine them.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 89 · Report 167
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 89 · PDF page 90
Narrators: Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Balkhī · Abū ʿAbd Allāh (report 167) · Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī