al-Sarī ibn Hawdha ibn Khalīfa

Related to us: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā; he said: related to me: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Salām, from his father Muḥammad ibn Salām; he said: I heard: al-Sarī ibn Hawdha, who said: My father asked Abū Ḥanīfa in Mecca about faith. He said: “Faith is affirmation, and deeds are its prescribed observances.”