Abu Hanifa

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Abu Hanifa was an 8th-century Muslim jurist and theologian who founded the Hanafi school, the oldest and one of the most widely followed schools of Sunni Islamic law.

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Abu Hanifa canonical 16
Abu Hanifa an-Nuʿman 1
Abu Hanifah 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic theologian
Muslim jurist
founder of an Islamic school of law
alsoKnownAs Abu Hanifa
surface form: Abu Hanifa an-Nuʿman

Abu Hanifa
surface form: Imam Abu Hanifa
associatedWith Abbasid Caliphate
Umayyad Caliphate
birthPlace Iraq
Kufa
birthYear 699
burialPlace Baghdad
deathPlace Abbasid Caliphate
Baghdad
deathYear 767
denomination Sunni Islam
era 8th century
ethnicity Persian
field fiqh
kalam
founderOf Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic law
fullName Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān
honorificMeaning The Greatest Imam
honorificTitle Imam al-Aʿzam
influenced Abu Yusuf
Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi jurisprudence

Islamic theology
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Sunni legal theory
influencedBy Companions of the Prophet through their students
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi
jurisprudenceSchool Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi
knownFor founding the Hanafi school of law
systematizing legal reasoning in Islam
use of analogical reasoning (qiyas)
use of juristic preference (istihsan)
legalMethod ijmaʿ
istihsan
qiyas
raʾy
mainInterest Islamic creed
Islamic jurisprudence
theology
opposed political involvement of scholars in unjust rule
profession jurist
merchant
theologian
region Iraq
religion Islam
schoolOfLawFounded Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi
student Abu Yusuf
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl
teacherOf Abu Yusuf
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl
theologicalSchool Maturidi precursor
tradition Sunni fiqh
veneratedIn Sunni Islam

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Hanafi school namedAfter Abu Hanifa
Hanafi school foundedBy Abu Hanifa
Hanafi school influencedBy Abu Hanifa
Istihsan defendedBy Abu Hanifa
Kufa associatedWith Abu Hanifa
al-Mabsut by al-Sarakhsi influencedBy Abu Hanifa
subject surface form: al-Mabsut
Muhammad al-Shaybani studentOf Abu Hanifa
Abu Hanifa alsoKnownAs Abu Hanifa
this entity surface form: Imam Abu Hanifa
Abu Hanifa alsoKnownAs Abu Hanifa
this entity surface form: Abu Hanifa an-Nuʿman
Abu Yusuf discipleOf Abu Hanifa
Abu Yusuf studentOf Abu Hanifa
Masyumi (historical association) notableLeader Abu Hanifa
subject surface form: Masyumi
this entity surface form: Abu Hanifah
Ja'far al-Sadiq teacherOf Abu Hanifa
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl teacher Abu Hanifa
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl studentOf Abu Hanifa
Shaykh al-Islam hasNotableBearer Abu Hanifa
Abd Allah ibn Masʿud influenced Abu Hanifa