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Abu Hanifa, Founder of the Hanafi school

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ScholarFounder of the Hanafi school

Abu Hanifaأبو حنيفة النعمان

Approximate dateKufa

A Kufan cloth merchant who built the first great school of Islamic law.

Of Persian descent, he is said to have seen the Companion Anas ibn Malik as a boy. He traded cloth and taught in Kufa, working through cases with his students by careful reasoning from the Quran, Sunnah and the rulings of the Companions. He refused to serve as judge under the Umayyads and then al-Mansur, and died in prison in Baghdad.

What grew out of it?

The Hanafi school became the law of the Abbasids, Ottomans and Mughals and has the most followers today.

Where do they appear in the story?

Who else is linked?

KufaIbrahim al-Nakha'iJa'far al-SadiqAbu YusufMuhammad al-ShaybaniAl-MansurAnas ibn MalikUmayyad CaliphateAbbasid CaliphateAbu Mansur al-Maturidi

Who lived at the same time?

Hisham ibn Abd al-MalikCharles MartelLeo III the IsaurianPelayoMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikAl-Walid ibn YazidYazid ibn Abd al-MalikYazid ibn al-Walid

Source: history · Wikipedia

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