Yaḥyā ibn al-Mughīra al-Madīnī

Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn Sulaymān al-Harawī related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn al-Mughīra al-Madīnī related to us. He said: Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: Mālik ibn Anas was asked: “What did you think of Abū Ḥanīfa?” He said: “I saw him speaking with Rabīʿa and bringing him around to his own view more than once. I saw that, were he to say of a wooden pillar, ‘This is gold,’ he would support it with arguments that would make you imagine it was gold.”