ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybānī; Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Wahbī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAṭiyyah; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Asadī; Muḥammad ibn Masrūq the Kufan; Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Wāsiṭī; Marwān ibn Sālim; Muṣʿab ibn al-Miqdām; al-Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān; and Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm.
Also (among his transmitters) were: Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Balkhī, known as al-Ṣayqal; Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-ʿAtakī; Abū Ghālib al-Naḍr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Azdī; al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī; al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Aṣbahānī; Nūḥ ibn Darrāj the judge; Nūḥ ibn Abī Maryam al-Jāmiʿ; Hushaym; Hawdhah; Hayyāj ibn Biṣṭām; Wakīʿ; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Miṣrī; Yaḥyā ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥājib; Yaḥyā ibn Yamān; Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; Yūnus ibn Bukayr; Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī; Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkārī; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣāghānī; Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ; Abū Muqātil al-Samarqandī; and the judge Abū Yūsuf.
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said: “Abū Ḥanīfah was a Taymī, belonging to the same clan as Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt. He was a ‘khazz’ merchant, trading in fine silk.”
ʿUmar ibn Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfah reported: “As for Zūṭā, he was from Kabul, and Thābit (Abū Ḥanīfah’s father) was born a Muslim.
Zūṭā had been a slave of the Banū Taym Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah. When he was manumitted, his clientage remained with them and was later transferred to the Banū Qafl.
Abū Ḥanīfah himself was a cloth-merchant, and his shop was well known in the quarter of ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth.”
Al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn al-Naḍr who said: “Abū Ḥanīfah’s father came from Nasā.”
Sulaymān ibn al-Rabīʿ related—on the authority of al-Ḥārith ibn Idrīs—that: “Abū Ḥanīfah’s ancestral roots are in Tirmidh.”
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqrī added: “Abū Ḥanīfah was from Babylon.”