In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. He alone is sufficient for me.

All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all realms, and may blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. To proceed:

These are selected narrations from Abu Hanifa al-Nuʿman—may Allah be pleased with him—which I have set apart with uninterrupted chains reaching back to him in hopes of their blessing. I ask Allah to make them beneficial to me and to all Muslims; He is indeed the All-Hearing, the Ever-Near.

The First Hadith

1 – Our grandfather related to us; al-Ṣalāḥ ibn Abī ʿUmar related to us; al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhārī related to us; Ibn al-Jawzī related to us; Abū Manṣūr ⦗10⦘ al-Qazzāz related to us; Abū ’l-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Dajjājī related to us; Abū Naṣr ibn al-Shāh related to us; Abū Naṣr al-Ḥayrī narrated to us; Abū Ṭālib ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarrānī narrated to us; Abū Furwah Yazīd ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Sābiq narrated to us; Abū Ḥanīfah narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“The Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were people who worked their own land with their hands. A man would head to the Friday congregational prayer while perspiring, so it was said, ‘Whoever goes out to the Friday prayer should take a ritual bath.’”