meaning that he removes from it al-laḥn (any grammatical error).
He replied, “There is no harm in that.”

I also heard him say, “Had we not recorded a hadith through thirty different routes, we would never have comprehended it.”

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Junayd said: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declare:
“This world is nothing but a dream. By Allah, nothing harms a man who fears Allah in whatever he greets the morning and the evening with. I performed the pilgrimage when I was twenty-four years old; I walked on foot from Baghdad to Mecca. That was fifty years ago, yet it seems as though it were only yesterday.”

I asked Yaḥyā, “Do you think a man should consult the opinions of al-Shāfiʿī and Abū Ḥanīfa?”
He answered, “I do not think anyone should look into the opinion of al-Shāfiʿī; looking into the opinion of Abū Ḥanīfa is dearer to me.”

I say: Abū Zakariyyā—may Allah have mercy on him—followed the Ḥanafī school in the furūʿ (subsidiary issues), and that is why he spoke in this way; it represents only a slight departure from al-Shāfiʿī.

Ibn al-Junayd further said: I heard Yaḥyā remark, “The evidence for prohibiting nabīdh (fermented date drink) is authentic, yet I withhold judgment and do not declare it unlawful. Some righteous people drank it on the strength of sound hadiths, while other righteous people forbade it on the strength of sound hadiths.”

And I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān say, “The hadith of al-Ṭilāʾ (1) and the hadith …”