ابن شبرمة (report 553; identity unresolved)

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ḥakīma related to us: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad related to us: I heard Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl say: I said to Ibn Shubruma, ‘Abū Ḥanīfa does not make an exception regarding faith.’ He said, ‘I do not know in which of the two stations I stand before God Most High, so how could I not make an exception?’

‘Making an exception’ retains the source’s theological expression for qualifying a declaration of faith; the report does not spell out a particular formula.