Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Ḥammād related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād informed us—Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq’s account was the more complete of the two. They said: ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād informed us. He said: We were in the Ḥijr with Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad when Abū Ḥanīfa came. He greeted him, embraced him, and asked after him at length, even asking about his servants. When he rose, one of those with Jaʿfar said to him: “Descendant of the Messenger of God! I do not think you know this man.” Jaʿfar said: “I have never seen anyone more foolish than you! You see me asking him about his servants, and you say: ‘Do you know this man?’ This is Abū Ḥanīfa, one of the most learned jurists of his town.”

The source first says “I do not think you know this man,” then has the shorter “Do you know this?” in Jaʿfar’s reply. The two forms are not silently harmonized.