Abu Hanifa
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Difficulties are the result of sin. The sinful therefore does not have the right to lament when difficulties befall him.
— Imam Abu Hanifa
Abu Hanifa
8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist
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Lived 699–767, aged 68
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He founded the most widely practiced school of Islamic law thirteen centuries ago, and today more Muslims follow his method of jurisprudence than any other — spanning Central Asia to the Balkans to Africa.
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Born on 5 September 699 CE, possibly in Kufa though sources dispute the exact location, Abu Hanifa traveled as a young man to Mecca and Medina to study. Al-Dhahabi would later call him "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence, worship, scrupulousness, and generosity". As his career advanced, he became known for privileging reason in legal rulings and theological questions alike, a methodological choice that set his school apart. He died on 18 June 767 CE, leaving behind two major students — Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani — who carried his work forward and becam…
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Abu Hanifa
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If you learned the sacred knowledge for the sake of this world, then the knowledge will be never rooted in your heart.
Abu Hanifa
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Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation.
— Jalal al-Din Sututi, Sawn ul- Muntaq p: 32
Abu Hanifa
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When a hadith is authentic, then that is my madhab.
Abu Hanifa
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For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.
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