حدثنا أحمد بن محمد، قال: حدثني عمر بن عيسى بن عثمان، قال: حدثني أبي، قال: حدثني إسماعيل بن شعيب السمان، عن أبيه، قال:رأيت أبا حنيفة ومحارب بن دثار متزاملين إلى مكة، وقد أحرما وهما يصحبان.
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us: ʿUmar ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿUthmān related to me: My father related to me: Ismāʿīl ibn Shuʿayb al-Sammān related to me, from his father, who said: I saw Abū Ḥanīfa and Muḥārib ibn Dithār sharing a mount on the way to Mecca. They had entered the state of pilgrimage consecration and were traveling together.
حدثنا أحمد بن محمد، قال: حدثنا محمد بن عبد الله بن نوفل، قال: حدثنا عبيد بن يعيش، قال: حدثنا إسماعيل بن شعيب السمّان، قال:رأيت سفيان إذا كبّر على الجنازة أربعاً انصرف، وكان أبو حنيفة يقف حتى يكبّر الخامسة.
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nawfal related to us: ʿUbayd ibn Yaʿīsh related to us: Ismāʿīl ibn Shuʿayb al-Sammān related to us: I saw that when Sufyān had pronounced four takbīrs over a funeral, he would leave, while Abū Ḥanīfa would remain until the fifth takbīr was pronounced.
The contrast between four and five takbīrs follows the supplied report and is not harmonized with other legal accounts.