Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥāzimī related to us: Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Lakhmī related to me, from his father, from Zakariyyā ibn Abī al-ʿAtīk, who said: Rabīʿa ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān came to Kufa while Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī was there. Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—had visited Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd with his companions, and Yaḥyā related reports to them. The first he related was, ‘Actions are according to intention.’ Abū Ḥanīfa—may God be pleased with him—said, ‘We have not heard this.’ They returned to him; he related reports, and they asked him questions. He withheld no report from them. Rabīʿa then arrived in these circumstances. The Kufans visited him and said, ‘Relate reports to us.’ He said, ‘I did not come to transmit reports.’ They said, ‘Then we will ask you questions.’ He said, ‘I will not answer you.’ One of them asked, ‘Did you hear Anas—may God be pleased with him—mention some description of the Messenger of God—God bless him and grant him peace?’ He said, ‘Yes, I heard it from Anas.’ They said, ‘Then dictate it to us.’ [He said], ‘Is my saying “yes” to you not sufficient?’ He did not dictate it to them.