still there, so Anas assumed that what remained was actually more than had been there at first. They would keep circulating a single large bowl from early morning until nightfall: ten men would finish and rise, then another ten would sit down—exactly as related in the report of Samurah ibn Jundub. Likewise, when all the People of the Veranda drank the small quantity of milk, it satisfied them all and still left a surplus. They used to recount such incidents among themselves, and they became famous—those who witnessed them transmitting them to those who had been absent. Hence the spread, renown, and multiple transmission of his miracles within the ummah are greater than the transmission of the prostration for forgetfulness in prayer, for that prostration occurred only a few times and was witnessed solely by the congregation praying behind him on those occasions. The same applies to their narration of the minimum wealth thresholds for zakat and its obligations; only a small group heard those rulings directly from him and then conveyed them.

Similarly, there is his ruling that the right of pre-emption applies to property that has not yet been divided; his judgment that the blood-money for accidental killing is borne by the male agnates; his statement that “the child belongs to the marriage-bed, and the fornicator receives nothing but stone”; his prohibition of shighar marriages; his forbidding of divorcing a menstruating wife or divorcing a wife with whom intercourse has taken place before it is known whether she is pregnant; his decision that a woman who is emancipated while married to a slave husband is granted the choice (whether to remain with him or not); and the inheritance