حدثنا زكريا بن يحيى بن الحارث النيسابوري، قال: سمعت محمد بن إبراهيم، قال: سئل محمد بن مقاتل، عن أبي حنيفة وسفيان أيهما أفضل؟ قال: ليس من ابتُلي فصبر كمن ابتلي فهرب.
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Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm say: Muḥammad ibn Muqātil was asked which was better, Abū Ḥanīfa or Sufyān. He said: ‘Someone who was tested and endured is not like someone who was tested and fled.’
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 96 · Report 190
2020 edition · Volume 1
- Printed page 96 · PDF page 97
Narrators: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī · محمد بن إبراهيم (report 190; identity unresolved)