Abū Umayya Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Nasawī related to us: Abū Umayya Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm related to us: al-Waḍḍāḥ ibn Ḥassān al-Anbārī related to us: al-Wazīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me: I heard Yāsīn al-Zayyāt in Mecca, with a great crowd around him, calling out at the top of his voice: ‘People! Visit Abū Ḥanīfa regularly, seize the opportunity to sit with him, and learn from his knowledge. You have never sat with anyone like him, nor found anyone more knowledgeable about the lawful and unlawful. If you lose him, you will lose a great deal of knowledge.’ Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—was making the pilgrimage that year.