Merits of Imam Al Azam
Sallamu Alaikum
(All the translations are Provided by Shaikh Gibril Haddad, and the Arabic by me)
قال أبو وهب ومحمد بن مزاحم سمعت بن المبارك يقول أفقه الناس أبو حنيفة ما رأيت في الفقه مثله وقال أيضا لولا أن الله تعالى أغاثني بأبي حنيفة وسفيان كنت كسائر الناس
-- Abu Wahb Muhammad ibn Muzahim said: I heard Ibn Mubarak say: "The most knowledgeable of people in fiqh (afqah al-nas) is Abu Hanifa. I have never seen anyone like him in fiqh." Ibn Mubarak also said: "If Allah had not rescued me with Abu Hanifa and Sufyan [al-Thawri] I would have been like the rest of the common people.
وقال الربيع وحرملة سمعنا الشافعي يقول الناس عيال في الفقه على أبي حنيفة
-- Al Rabi and Harmal said: We heard Shafi saying that People are children of Abu Hanifa in Fiqh.
وقال أحمد بن علي بن سعيد القاضي سمعت يحيى بن معين يقول سمعت يحيى بن سعيد القطان يقول لا تكذب الله ما سمعنا أحسن من رأى أبي حنيفة وقد أخذنا بأكثر اقواله
-- Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Sa`id al-Qadi said: I heard Yahya ibn Ma`in say: I heard Yahya ibn Sa`id Al Qattan [Ahmad ibn Hanbal's greatest shaykh] say: This is no lie on our part, by Allah! We have not heard better than Abu Hanifa's opinion, and we have followed most of his sayings.
وقال بن أبي خيثمة ثنا سليمان بن أبي شيخ قال كان أبو حنيفة ورعا سخيا
-- Ibn Abi Khaythama said from Sulayman ibn Abu Shaykh: Abu Hanifa was extremely scrupulous (wari`) and generous (sakhi).
وعن بن عيسى بن الطباع سمعت روح بن عبادة يقول كنت عند بن جريج سنة خمسين ومائة فأتاه موت أبي حنيفة فاسترجع وتوجع وقال أي علم ذهب قال وفيها مات بن جريج
-- Ibn Isa ibn al-Tabba said: I heard Rawh ibn Ubada say: I was with Ibn Jurayj in the year 150 when the news of Abu Hanifa's death reached him. He winced and pain seized him; he said: Verily, knowledge has departed (ay `ilmun dhahab)." Ibn Jurayj died that same year.
ويروي عن أبي يوسف قال بينما أنا امشي مع أبي حنيفة إذ سمعت رجلا يقول لرجل هذا أبو حنيفة لا ينام الليل فقال أبو حنيفة لا يتحدث عني بما لم أفعل فكان يحيى الليل يعني بعد ذلك
-- It is narrated on the authority of Abu Yusuf that he said: As I was walking with Abu Hanifa we heard a man saying to another: This is Abu Hanifa, he does not sleep at night. Abu Hanifa said: He does not say something about me which I do not actually do. He would -- after this -- spend the greatest part of the night awake.
وقال بن أبي داود عن نصر بن علي سمعت بن داود يعني الخريبي يقول الناس في أبي حنيفة حاسد وجاهل
-- Ibn Abi Dawud said on the authority of Nasr ibn Ali: I heard Ibn Dawud -- al-Khuraybi -- say: Among the people concerning Abu Hanifa there are plenty of enviers and ignorant ones.
وقال أحمد بن عبدة قاضي الري عن أبيه كنا عند بن عائشة فذكر حديثا لأبي حنيفة ثم قال أما أنكم لو رأيتموه لاردتموه فما مثله ومثلكم إلا كما قيل
اقلوا عليهم ويلكم لا أبا لكم
من اللوم أو سدوا المكان الذي سدوا
-- Ahmad ibn `Abda the Qadi of Ray said that his father said: We were with ibn A'isha when he mentioned a saying of Abu Hanifa then he said: Verily, if you had seen him you would have wanted him. Verily, his similitude and yours is as in the saying:
Even if you curse them less, I don't care to blame you.
But fill, if you can, the space that they filled.
(Tadhib by Ibn Hajar)
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