Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Balkhī related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḍurays related to me. He said: I was present with Sufyān al-Thawrī when he was told: “Abū Ḥanīfa used to say that if a leather sock has a hole large enough for three fingers to enter, one may not wipe over it.” Sufyān said: “Glory be to God! Who said this, and from whom did he take it? Do they think the leather socks of the companions of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, had no holes?” Sufyān then said: “One may wipe over the leather sock as long as it is called a leather sock.”