Rabbi Chanina
Note: I've noticed that I listed here some items which may have been linked to Rabbi Chanina from the time of the mishnah. I hope to come back to this and clean it up at some point. I apologize. I'm also trying to avoid mixing Rabbi Chanina with Rav Chanina.
Traits and Conduct
As an Expert Doctor: Yoma 49a
As an Astrologer: Shabbat 156a
Used to wrap himself in a special jacket and say "Let's go greet the Shabbat Queen" on Friday night: Shabbat 119a
Rabbi Chanina sent four zuz to a pauper each Friday. One Friday he sent it with his wife, who overheard someone in the pauper's home discussing whether to use silver-coloured or gold-coloured tablecloths. Rabbi Chanina expressed gratitude for people who trick others into giving tzedakah, as otherwise people would sin by not giving tzedakah: Ketuvot 67b-68a
Anecdotes involving Rabbi Yochanan
Rabbi Chanina removing Rabbi Yochanan's suffering via prayer: Berachot 5b
Rabbi Yochanan tore 13 silk garments when Rabbi Chanina's death was mentioned, saying, "The man I was afraid of is gone.": Moed Katan 24a
Rabbi Yochanan said of Rabbi Chanina, "His brilliance keeps me from ruling" on certain cases, because their rulings didn't match: Niddah 20b
Rabbi Elazar said of Rabbi Chanina, "His humility allows me to rule" on certain cases, because if one of such humility could rule on them, Rabbi Elazar felt that he could, too: Niddah 20b
Anecdotes involving other sages
Set of statements, cited by Rabbi Abba Bar Kahana: Shabbat 121b-122a
Rabbi Zeira citing Reish Lakish citing a "Gavrah Rabbah [Great Man]" - Rabbi Chanina: Eruvin 80a
Rabbi Zeira said of a statement which Rabbi Chanina had disproved, "We had this item in our hands, and Rabbi Chanina came and threw a hatchet into it!": Rosh HaShanah 13a
Rabbi Elazar's set of statements, citing Rabbi Chanina, of extra-legal Talmud: Megillah 15a-b
Reish Lakish and the students of Rabbi Chanina had a legal quandary. Reish Lakish said they should act on a certain suggestion, and then ask on arrival by the sages of the South. When they arrived, they asked Rabbi Efes, who agreed with their method: Eruvin 65b
Rabbi Chanina permitted Mar Ukva to marry a woman who had been nursing a baby for only fifteen months [despite potential concern for a new pregnancy which could curtail her milk]: Ketuvot 60b
Rava telling Rabbi Chanina [other editions: Rabbi Chiyya]: Had you learned from Rabbah, you would have known this: Keritot 25b
Rabbi Chanina's questions for Rabbi Elazar regarding deeper meaning in mitzvot or in place names in the Torah: Bechorot 5b
Allowed Shemuel's daughters to marry after their capture, based on their testimony, despite rumors of witnesses against them: Ketuvot 23a
On the daughters of Shemuel: Ketuvot 23a
Saying "May Gd save us from your logic" in a debate with Rabbi Ila'a: Shabbat 84b; Ketuvot 45b
Calling Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi "Bar Livai [Son of Levi]": Shabbat 156a
