before the people and then read out ḥadith from a book! (1)

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawwār reported: Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb narrated to us; Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, saying, “I heard Sufyān al-Thawrī declare, ‘There is no Hajj incumbent upon the women of Khurasan.’”

I say: This is an astonishing claim—are they not part of humankind? He was apparently alluding to the long distance and the severe hardship involved.

The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAwanah said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl remark, “Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh judged strictly on the basis of transmitted reports (al-athar) and never at all according to personal opinion.” (2)

It is also said that he served as judge for twenty years.

Al-Nasaʾi stated: “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

His son Aḥmad reported: He died with five days remaining in Shaʿbān, 209 AH. (3)

180 – Ibn Abī Fudayk, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dīlī (ʿ)
The imām, reliable authority, and traditionist: Abū Ismāʿīl Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim ibn Abī Fudayk—whose given name was Dīnār—al-Dīlī, their client, of Madinah.