Abu Hanifa
8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist · Academics · Lived 699 to 767 · aged 68
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Portraits of the Imāms Ḥasan (d. 670), Ḥusayn (d. 680), Shāfi`ī (d. 820) and Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 767), with `Abbāsid revolutionary Abū Muslim (d. 755)
تاريخ بغداد مدينة السلام ج 15 موسى واصلIn their own words 7
, Difficulties are the result of sin. The sinful therefore does not have the right to lament when difficulties befall him.
If you learned the sacred knowledge for the sake of this world, then the knowledge will be never rooted in your heart.
Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation.
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About this person
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 became celebrated jurists themselves. His followers eventually aligned with the Maturidi school of theology, and the Hanafi tradition he established now predominates across Turkey, Russia, South Asia, and beyond.
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