anything from anyone, I would have taken it from you.”

ʿAbdullāh said: I asked my father, “I have heard that ʿAbd al-Razzāq offered you some gold dinars?”
He replied, “Yes. And Yazīd ibn Hārūn once handed me five hundred dirhams—I think—yet I did not accept them. He also offered them to Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and to Abū Muslim, and they accepted.”

Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn ʿAskar relates: I heard ʿAbd al-Razzāq say, “If this man lives on, he will be a worthy successor among the scholars.”

Al-Marrūdhī reports: Abū Muḥammad al-Nasāʾī told me that he heard Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh say:
“We were with ʿAbd al-Razzāq—Ahmad ibn Hanbal and I—when we accompanied him to the prayer-ground on the day of ʿĪd, and neither he nor I nor Ahmad pronounced the takbīrs. He said to us, ‘I once saw Maʿmar and al-Thawrī pronounce the takbīrs on this day, but when I noticed that you two did not do so, I refrained as well. Why did you not pronounce them?’
We replied, ‘We do consider the takbīrs prescribed, but we were distracted, wondering with which book we should begin.’ ”

Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī said: “Ahmad ibn Hanbal was leading ʿAbd al-Razzāq in prayer and made an inadvertent mistake. ʿAbd al-Razzāq inquired about it and was told that he had eaten nothing for three days.”

Al-Khallāl transmitted this, saying: “I heard Abū Zurʿah, the Damascene judge, report it from al-Jawzajānī.”

Al-Khallāl also said: “Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Jabbulī narrated to us from Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, who said: ‘I was with Ahmad ibn Hanbal in the company of ʿAbd al-Razzāq. A slave-girl was with me, and we lodged upstairs while Ahmad stayed downstairs. He said to me, “Abū Yaʿqūb, I am pleased by the sounds of your movements.” I would look down and see him crafting tikak, selling them, and living on their proceeds—or something to that effect.’ ”