حدثنا أحمد بن محمد، قال: حدثنا محمد بن عبد الله بن سالم، قال: حدثنا أبي، قال: سمعت إسماعيل بن حماد بن أبي حنيفة رحمة الله عليهم، يذكر عن مالك بن مغول: أنه كان ربما جالس أبا حنيفة رحمة الله عليه، قال: فرأيته يوماً وسئل عن مسألة، فألقاها على أصحابه فعيُّوا عن جوابها، فقال فيها: ثم أطرق طويلاً ورفع رأسه إلى السماء وعيناه تدمعان، فقال: اللهم إنك تعلم أني إنما أريد به وجهك.
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim related to us: My father related to us: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on them—relate from Mālik ibn Mighwal: He would sometimes sit with Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him. He said: One day I saw him being asked a question. He put it to his companions, but they were unable to answer it, so he gave his answer. Then he lowered his head for a long time, raised it toward heaven with tears in his eyes, and said, ‘O God, You know that by this I seek only Your countenance.’
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 124 · Report 287
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 124 · PDF page 125
Narrators: أحمد بن محمد (report 287; identity unresolved) · Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim · ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim (father of Muḥammad; printed “أبي”) · Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfa · Mālik ibn Mighwal