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وأما سهل بن مزاحم فإنه قال: كنا ندخل على أبي حنيفة في بيته فلا نرى فيه إلا البواري.
Show English translation
Sahl ibn Muzāḥim said: We would enter Abū Ḥanīfa’s house and see nothing in it but reed mats.
Sources and text notes
al-Zaranjarī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa · Reading edition: Şimşek & Kütük (2018).
- Şimşek & Kütük (2018), printed page 123 · View source page →