half of it would have been enough, and such a claim is wildly overstated.

When Rabiʿah reached the age of twenty-seven he was still a young man with no teaching circle of his own; the seat of instruction then belonged to Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, and the other elders from whom Rabiʿah learned. Mālik had not yet been born—or was still an infant.

As for the tawīlah (long cloak), it was first distributed among the people by al-Manṣūr after Rabiʿah’s death. Ḥasan ibn Zayd only grew old and became renowned long after Rabiʿah, and the chain for that anecdote is broken, though perhaps part of it really did occur.

I read this before Abū al-Maʿālī; Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us, saying that Abū Hurayrah Muḥammad ibn al-Layth al-Labbān and Zayd ibn Hibatuʾllāh al-Bayyiʿ of Baghdad reported:

Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qafarjal narrated to us; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl the judge dictated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Mālik narrated from Rabiʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Ḥanẓalah ibn Qays al-Zuraqī that he asked Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj about leasing farmland.

He replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade leasing the land.” I asked, “Even for payment in gold and silver?” He said, “There is no objection to gold or silver.”

This is an authentic hadith with a lofty chain. Muslim related it through Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, and Abū Dāwūd through Qutaybah—both of them from Mālik ibn Anas. (1)

Ibn al-Qāsim reports from Mālik: al-Zuhri arrived, took Rabiʿah by the hand, and the two of them entered a house, remaining there until the ʿAṣr prayer. Ibn Shihāb came out saying, “I never imagined there was anyone in Medina like Rabiʿah,” and Rabiʿah emerged uttering similar praise about him.

Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ said: ʿAnbasah narrated to us, from Yūnus: “I was present with Abū Ḥanīfah in …”