Ahmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Nasr informed us; Yahyā ibn Yaʿlā informed us: I heard Nuʿaym ibn Hammād say: I heard Nūh ibn Abī Maryam say:

“We were with Abū Hanīfah—may Allah have mercy on him—in the early days of his prominence, when a woman from Tirmidh came to him,