Zuta and his progeny thereafter became clients ( mawali) of the Taymallah, hence the sporadic references to Abu Hanifa as 'al-Taymi' (i.e. There, he was purchased and freed by an Arab tribesman of the Taymallah, a branch of the Banu Bakr. His grandfather, Zuta, may have been captured by Muslim troops in Kabul and sold as a slave in Kufa. However, he is also stated to be of Persian origin. Īccording to some scholars including Wink, ancestors of Abu Hanifa were Jats (known in Arabic as Az-Zutt) who had moved to Iraq by the seventh century.

According to the view of Abu Hanifa being born in 80 AH, Abu Hanifa would have been 16. Something that could only happen after Abu Hanifa was slightly older since it’s well known Abu Hanifa only cared about his religious studies after he was about 19. Secondly, Abu Hanifa was concerned with who should succeed Ibrahim Al-Nakhai after his death in 96 AH. Firstly, Mohammad Ibn Makhlad Al-Attar considers the narration of Abu Hanifa’s son, Hammad, from Imam Malik Ibn Anas to be an example of an older man narration from a younger man.

But Mohammad Zahid Al-Kawthari, adjunct to the office of the last Shaykh Al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, writes that the middle view, 70 AH, is supported by two facts the others aren’t. Most historians choose the latest view, 80 AH, in accordance with the principle of choosing the latest date death as this is for the purpose of caution. Life Family background Ību Hanifa was born in Kufa in 80 AH, 77 AH, 70 AH, or 61 AH, during the reign of the Umayyad Caliphate. Abu Hanifa's theological school is claimed to be what would later develop into the Maturidi school of Sunni theology.

As his career as a theologian and jurist progressed, Abu Hanifa became known for favoring the use of reason in his legal rulings ( faqīh dhū raʾy) and even in his theology. īorn to a Muslim family in Kufa, Abu Hanifa is known to have travelled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in Mecca and Medina. He is also called al-Imām al-Aʿẓam ('The Greatest Imam') and Sirāj al-Aʾimma ('The Lamp of the Imams') by some of his Sunni followers. 699–767), commonly known by his kunya Abū Ḥanīfa ( Arabic: أبو حنيفة), or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Muslims, was a Sunni Muslim theologian and jurist who became the eponymous founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which has remained the most widely practiced law school in the Sunni tradition, predominating in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran (until the 16th century), Balkans, Russia, Circassia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Muslims in India, Turkey, and some parts of the Arab world.

Imam Malik ibn Anas, Waki' ibn al-Jarrah, Imam Al-Shafi'i, Muhammad al-Shaybani, Abu Yusuf, Al-Tahawi, Ibn al-Mubarak and all Sunnis, especially the Hanafis.

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