Abu Hanifa, the Glossary

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1. 139 relations: 'Aql, Abbasid Caliphate, Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi, Abdul Qadir Gilani, Abu Hanifa Mosque, Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Abu Yusuf, Adam in Islam, Adhamiyah, Ahl al-Bayt, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Dhahabi, Al-Fiqh al-Akbar, Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Al-Mansur, Al-Shafi'i, Al-Tahawi, Al‑Kawthari, Ali, Alids, Amir al-Sha'bi, Anan ben David, Anas ibn Malik, Anthropomorphism, Aqidah, Arab world, Arabic grammar, Ata ibn Abi Rabah, Badr al-Din al-Ayni, Baghdad, Banu Bakr, Bernard Lewis, Brill Publishers, Caliphate, Camilla Adang, Charles Kurzman, Charles Pellat, Chicago, Chiragh Ali, Companions of the Prophet, Family tree of Muhammad, Faqīh, Fiqh, Greater Khorasan, Hadith, Hajj, Hammad ibn Salamah, ... Expand index (89 more) »

2. 699 births
3. 767 deaths
4. 8th-century Arabic-language writers
5. 8th-century Muslim theologians
6. Muslim critics of atheism
7. Muslim scholars
8. People from Kufa
9. People from Najaf Province
10. Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in

'Aql

Aql (lit) is an Arabic term used in Islamic philosophy and theology for the intellect or the rational faculty of the soul that connects humans to God.

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Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak

Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (translit; –797) was an 8th-century traditionalist Sunni Muslim scholar and Hanafi jurist. Abu Hanifa and Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud

Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (translit) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad whom Islamic tradition regards the greatest interpreter of the Quran of his time and the second ever.

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Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi

ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Ḥumaydī (died 834) was a hafiz, faqih from Shafi'i jurisprudence scholar and Shaykh of the al-Haram.

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Abdul Qadir Gilani

Abdul Qadir Gilani (عبد القادر الجيلاني, عبدالقادر گیلانی) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders.

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Abu Hanifa Mosque

The Abu Hanifa Mosque (Masjid Abī hanīfah), also known as the Grand Imam Mosque (Gāmi` al-imām al-aʿẓam), is one of the most prominent Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (853–944) was an Islamic scholar and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of theology in Sunni Islam. Abu Hanifa and Abu Mansur al-Maturidi are Mujaddid, Quranic exegesis scholars, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Abu Yusuf

Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari, better known as Abu Yusuf (Abū Yūsuf) (729–798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifa (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the government positions that he held. Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Adam in Islam

Adam (ʾĀdam), in Islamic theology, is believed to have been the first human being on Earth and the first prophet (نبي, nabī) of Islam.

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Adhamiyah

Al-Adhamiyah (translit), also Azamiya, is a neighborhood and east-central district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.

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Ahl al-Bayt

(lit) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (translit; November 780 – 2 August 855) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, ascetic and eponym of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence—one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam. Abu Hanifa and Ahmad ibn Hanbal are Mujaddid, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Al-Dhahabi

Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (شمس الدين الذهبي), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Athari theologian, Islamic historian and Hadith scholar.

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Al-Fiqh al-Akbar

Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (italic) or "The Greater Knowledge" is a popular early Islamic text attributed to the Muslim jurist Abu Hanifa.

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Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad

Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ (died 803 / AH 187, الفضيل بن عياض, full name, was also known as Abu Ali and as al-Talaqani) was an Islamic Sunni Scholar.

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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thābit ibn Aḥmad ibn Māhdī al-Shāfiʿī, commonly known as al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (الخطيب البغدادي) or "the lecturer from Baghdad" (10 May 1002 – 5 September 1071; 392 AH-463 AH), was a Sunni Muslim scholar known for being one of the foremost leading hadith scholars and historians at his time. Abu Hanifa and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Al-Mansur

Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور‎; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr (المنصور) was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 CE – 775 CE) succeeding his brother al-Saffah.

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Al-Shafi'i

Al-Shafi'i (translit;;767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. Abu Hanifa and al-Shafi'i are 8th-century Arabic-language writers, Mujaddid and Sunni imams.

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Al-Tahawi

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian. Abu Hanifa and al-Tahawi are Hanafis and Mujaddid.

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Al‑Kawthari

Muhammad Zahid Hasan (–1952), commonly known by the al-Kawthari, was an Islamic scholar and theologian. Abu Hanifa and Al‑Kawthari are Hanafis, Mujaddid, Muslim scholars, Sunni fiqh scholars and Sunni imams.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.

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Alids

The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib (عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600–661 CE), the fourth Rashidun caliph and the first imam in Shia Islam.

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Amir al-Sha'bi

Abū ʿAmr ʿĀmir ibn Sharāḥīl ibn ʿAbd al-Kūfī al-Shaʿbī (أبو عمرو عامر بن شراحيل بن عبد الكوفي الشعبي), 641–723, commonly known as Imam al-Sha'bi or al-Sha'bi, was an Arab historian and jurist, as well as an appreciated Tabi'un, born during the rule of Umar ibn al-Khattab. Abu Hanifa and Amir al-Sha'bi are 8th-century Muslim theologians, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam, Sunni imams and Tabi‘un.

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Anan ben David

Anan Ben David (ענן בן דוד, c. 715 - c. 795) is widely considered to be a major founder of Karaite Judaism.

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Anas ibn Malik

Anas ibn Mālik ibn Naḍr al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī (أنس بن مالك الخزرجي الأنصاري; 612 712) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Aqidah

Aqidah (pl.) is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that literally means "creed".

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Arab world

The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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Arabic grammar

Arabic grammar (النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language.

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Ata ibn Abi Rabah

Ata ibn Abi Rabah (translit) was a prominent early Muslim jurist and hadith transmitter who served as the mufti of Mecca in the late seventh and early eighth centuries. Abu Hanifa and Ata ibn Abi Rabah are Tabi‘un.

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Badr al-Din al-Ayni

Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (Badr al-ʿAynī; born 762 AH/1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab and the Shadhili tariqa. Abu Hanifa and Badr al-Din al-Ayni are Hanafis, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Banu Bakr

The Banu Bakr bin Wa'il (بنو بكر بن وائل), or simply Banu Bakr, today known as Bani Bakr an Arabian tribe belonging to the large Rabi'ah, a branch of Adnanite tribe.

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Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Caliphate

A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.

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Camilla Adang

Camilla Adang is a Dutch associate professor of Islamic studies at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Charles Kurzman

Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Middle East and Islamic studies.

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Charles Pellat

Charles Pellat (28 September 1914, in Souk Ahras – 28 October 1992, in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French Algerian academic, historian, translator, and scholar of Oriental studies, specialized in Arab studies and Islamic studies.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chiragh Ali

Moulví Cherágh Ali (1844–1895) (also spelled Chirágh) was an Indian Muslim scholar of the late 19th century.

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Companions of the Prophet

The Companions of the Prophet (lit) were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime, while being a Muslim and were physically in his presence.

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Family tree of Muhammad

This family tree is about the relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a family member of the family of Hashim and the Qurayshs tribe which is ‘Adnani.

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Faqīh

A faqīh (fuqahā, فقيه;: ‏فقهاء&lrm) is an Islamic jurist, an expert in fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic Law.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Hammad ibn Salamah

Abu Salma Hammad ibn Salamah ibn Dinar al-Basri (حماد بن سلمة بن دينار البصري; died 167 AH/783 CE), the son of Salamah ibn Dinar, was a prominent narrator of hadith and one of the earliest grammarians of the Arabic language. Abu Hanifa and Hammad ibn Salamah are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Hanafi school

The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Harun al-Rashid

Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.

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Hejaz

The Hejaz (also; lit) is a region that includes the majority of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, covering the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif and Baljurashi.

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History of Islam

The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.

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Holiest sites in Islam

The holiest sites in Islam are located in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Ibn Abi Shaybah

Ibn Abī Shaybah or Imām Abū Bakr Ibn Abī Shaybah or Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbasī al-Kūfī (Arabic: امامأبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي شيبة إبراهيمبن عثمان العبسي الكوفي) (159H – 235H / 775–849 CE) was an early Muslim scholar of hadith. Abu Hanifa and ibn Abi Shaybah are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (ابن حجر العسقلاني; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. Abu Hanifa and ibn Hajar al-Asqalani are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm (November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Abu Hanifa and Ibn Hazm are Mujaddid.

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Ibn Kathir

Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (translit), known simply as Ibn Kathir, was an Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar. Abu Hanifa and ibn Kathir are Quranic exegesis scholars.

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Ibn Sa'd

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd (ابن سعد) and nicknamed Scribe of Waqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was a scholar and Arabian biographer.

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Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri

Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Shihab az-Zuhri (translit; died 124 AH/741-2 CE), also referred to as Ibn Shihab or az-Zuhri, was a ''tabi'i'' Arab jurist and traditionist credited with pioneering the development of sīra-maghazi and hadith literature.

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Ibn Taymiyya

Ibn Taymiyya (ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328)Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Abu Hanifa and Ibn Taymiyya are Sunni fiqh scholars and Sunni imams.

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Ibrahim al-Nakha'i

Abū ʿImrān Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī (أَبُو عِمْرَان إٍبْرَاهِيمبْن يَزِيد ٱلنَّخَعِيّ); 670 – 714 CE / 50 – 96 AH), was a Muslim jurist and theologian. Though belonging to the generation following the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, he still met many of them during his lifetime, including Anas ibn Malik and Aisha. Abu Hanifa and Ibrahim al-Nakha'i are 8th-century Muslim theologians and Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Ignác Goldziher

Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher (22 June 1850 – 13 November 1921), often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam.

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Ijma

Ijma (lit) is an Arabic term referring to the consensus or agreement of the Islamic community on a point of Islamic law.

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Ijtihad

Ijtihad (اجتهاد) is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question.

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.

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Ismail I

Ismail I (translit; 14 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524.

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Istihsan

(Arabic) is an Arabic term for juristic discretion.

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Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (translit; –765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam. Abu Hanifa and Ja'far al-Sadiq are deaths by poisoning.

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Jabir ibn Abd Allah

Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām al-Anṣārī (جابر بن عبدالله بن عمرو بن حرامالأنصاري, died 697 CE/78 AH), Abu Muhammad and Abu Abd al-Rahman also wrote his nickname was a prominent companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Jahm bin Safwan

Jahm bin Safwan was an Islamic theologian of the Umayyad period and whose name has given rise to the Jahmiyya moniker. Abu Hanifa and Jahm bin Safwan are people from Kufa.

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Jahmiyya

Jahmiyya is a term used by Islamic scholars to refer to the followers of the doctrines of Jahm bin Safwan (d. 128/746).

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā’ī al-Mizzī, (يوسف بن عبد الرحمن المزي), also called Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥajjāj, was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm al-rijāl Islamic scholar. Abu Hanifa and Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi are Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Jats

The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan.

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Joseph Schacht

Joseph Franz Schacht (15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Karaite Judaism

Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a non-Rabbinical Jewish sect and, in Eastern Europe, a separate Judaic ethno-religion characterized by the recognition of the written Tanakh alone as its supreme authority in halakha (Jewish religious law) and theology. Karaites believe that all of the divine commandments which were handed down to Moses by God were recorded in the written Torah without any additional Oral Law or explanation.

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Kitab al-Athar

Kitab al-Athar (كتاب الآثار), is one of the earlier Hadith books compiled by Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani (132 AH – 189 AH), the student of Imam Abu Hanifa.

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Kojiro Nakamura

was a Japanese scholar of Islam.

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Kufa

Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf.

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Lanham, Maryland

Lanham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas (translit; –795) was an Islamic scholar and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. Abu Hanifa and Malik ibn Anas are 8th-century Muslim theologians, Mujaddid, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam, Sunni imams and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in.

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Marzban

Marzbān, or Marzpān (Middle Persian transliteration: mrzwpn, derived from marz "border, boundary" and the suffix -pān "guardian"; Modern Persian: مرزبان Marzbān) were a class of margraves, warden of the marches, and by extension military commanders, in charge of border provinces of the Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD) and mostly Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD) of Iran.

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Maturidism

Maturidism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.

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Mawla

Mawlā (مَوْلَى, plural mawālī مَوَالِي), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Medina

Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Muhammad al-Baqir

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the fifth of the twelve Shia imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Sajjad, and succeeded by his son, Ja'far al-Sadiq. Abu Hanifa and Muhammad al-Baqir are deaths by poisoning.

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Muhammad al-Bukhari

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī (21 July 810 – 1 September 870) was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam.

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Muhammad al-Shaybani

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was a Muslim jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (later being the eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence), Malik ibn Anas and Abu Yusuf. Abu Hanifa and Muhammad al-Shaybani are Hanafis, Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam and Sunni imams.

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Muqatil ibn Sulayman

Muqātil ibn Sulaymān (d. 767 C.E.) was an 8th-century Muslim scholar of the Quran, controversial for his anthropomorphism. He wrote one of the earliest, if not first, commentaries of the Qur'an which is still available today.John Wansbrough, "The Sectarian Milieu" 2006 (original 1978) Muqatil is the author of a tafsir (commentary) on the Quran that John Wansbrough considers the oldest surviving complete tafsir and discusses in some detail. Abu Hanifa and Muqatil ibn Sulayman are 767 deaths, 8th-century Arabic-language writers and Quranic exegesis scholars.

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Musnad Abi Hanifa

Musnad Abu Hanifa (مسند أبو حنيفة) is one of the collection of sayings of Islamic scholar Imam Abu Hanifa (80 AH- 150 AH).

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oneworld Publications

Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Prophets and messengers in Islam

Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.

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Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

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Qiyas

In Islamic jurisprudence, qiyas (قياس) is the process of deductive analogy in which the teachings of the hadith are compared and contrasted with those of the Quran, in order to apply a known injunction (nass) to a new circumstance and create a new injunction.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Reuben Levy

Reuben Levy (28 April 1891 – 6 September 1966) was Professor of Persian at the University of Cambridge.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke is a German academic, historian, and scholar of Islamic studies.

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Safavid Iran

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.

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Sahih al-Bukhari

(translit) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Islam.

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Sahih Muslim

(translit) is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam.

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Sahl ibn Sa'd

Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī (سهل بن سعد الساعدي) was one of the prominent Sahaba, or direct companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a member of the Ansar and an early Muslim scholar.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Shafi'i school

The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Shaykh al-Islām

Shaykh al-Islām (Šayḫ al-Islām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; شیخ‌ الاسلام, Şeyhülislam) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.

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Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah

Abū Muḥammad Sufyān ibn ʽUyaynah ibn Maymūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (أبو محمد سفيان بن عيينة بن ميمون الهلالي الكوفي) (725 –) was a prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca. Abu Hanifa and Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah are 8th-century Arabic-language writers.

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Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman I (Süleyman-ı Evvel; I.,; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his Ottoman realm, was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tabi'un

The tābiʿūn (اَلتَّابِعُونَ, also accusative or genitive tābiʿīn اَلتَّابِعِينَ, singular tābiʿ تَابِعٌ), "followers" or "successors", are the generation of Muslims who followed the companions (ṣaḥāba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and thus received their teachings secondhand. Abu Hanifa and Tabi'un are Tabi‘un.

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Taym Allah

Taym Allah (also transliterated Taymallah), known as Taym Allat (also transliterated Taymallat) in the pre-Islamic period or before their conversion to Christianity, were an Arab tribe in eastern Arabia and the lower Euphrates valley, belonging to the Banu Bakr confederation.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Ulama

In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.

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Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Urf

(العرف) is an Arabic Islamic term referring to the custom, or 'knowledge', of a given society.

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Varieties of Arabic

Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively.

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Waki' ibn al-Jarrah

Abū Sufyān Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ ibn Malīḥ al-Ruʾāsī al-Kilābī al-Kufī (745/47–812) was a prominent hadith scholar based in Kufa. Abu Hanifa and Waki' ibn al-Jarrah are people from Kufa.

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Xlibris

Xlibris is a self-publishing and on-demand printing services provider, founded in 1997 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

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Ya'qubi

ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim geographer.

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Zahiri school

The Ẓāhirī school (translit) or Zahirism is a Sunnī school of Islamic jurisprudence founded in the 9th century by Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī, a Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Zayd ibn Ali

Zayd ibn ʿAlī (زيد بن علي; 695–740), also spelled Zaid, was the son of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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Zaydism

Zaydism is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali‘s unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Zuṭṭ

Zutt is an Arabicised form of Jat.

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See also

699 births

• Abu Hanifa
• Dagobert III
• Ibn Jurayj
• Muhammad bin Muslim
• Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)
• Zu Yong

767 deaths

• Abu Hanifa
• Aedh Ailghin
• Constantine II of Constantinople
• Huangfu Ran
• Ibn Ishaq
• Muhammad bin Muslim
• Muqatil ibn Sulayman
• Murchad mac Flaithbertaig
• Pope Michael I of Alexandria
• Pope Paul I
• Taichō
• Toktu of Bulgaria
• Yoʼnal Ahk III

8th-century Arabic-language writers

• Aban al-Lahiqi
• Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf
• Abu Amr al-Basri
• Abu Hanifa
• Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani
• Abu Mikhnaf
• Al-Asmaʿi
• Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Al-Nadr ibn Shumayl
• Al-Shafi'i
• Awana ibn al-Hakam
• Dik al-Jinn
• Hammad Ar-Rawiya
• Hasan al-Basri
• Ibn Ishaq
• Ibn Wahb
• Ibn al-Muqaffa'
• Mashallah ibn Athari
• Muqatil ibn Sulayman
• Musa ibn ʿUqba
• Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī
• Naubakht
• Rabia Basri
• Sayf ibn Umar
• Sibawayh
• Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah
• Ya'qub ibn Tariq

8th-century Muslim theologians

• Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Fazari
• Abu Hanifa
• Abu al-Khattab
• Amir al-Sha'bi
• Fatima bint Mundhir
• Hafsa bint Sirin
• Hasan al-Basri
• Ibrahim al-Nakha'i
• Malik ibn Anas
• Mo'mean al-Tagh
• Mu'min al-Taq
• Muslim scholars of the 1st century AH
• Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar

Muslim critics of atheism

• Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri
• Abu Hanifa
• Adnan Ibrahim
• Fahd of Saudi Arabia
• Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi

Muslim scholars

• Abbad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
• Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
• Abu Hanifa
• Abul Hasan Hankari
• Akshamsaddin
• Al-Mu'allimi
• Al-Saffarini
• Al‑Kawthari
• Anwar Shah Kashmiri
• Azhar Shah Qaiser
• Azizul Haque (scholar, born 1919)
• Md. Salleh Yaapar
• Mehdi Aminrazavi
• Mohammad Hanif (scholar)
• Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari
• Muhammad Said al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i
• Muhammad Shafi Deobandi
• Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi
• Muhammadullah Hafezzi
• Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
• Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi
• Rashid Rida
• Said Nursî
• Sayyid Mumtaz Ali
• Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
• Shukrullah Mubarakpuri
• Sufi Muhammad Barkat Ali Ludhianvi

People from Kufa

• A'sha Hamdan
• Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Fazari
• Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami
• Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i
• Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar ash-Shaybani
• Abu Basir al-Asadi
• Abu Basir al-Moradi
• Abu Hanifa
• Abu Mikhnaf
• Abu al-Khattab
• Ahmad ibn Isa ibn Zayd
• Al-Fadl ibn Sahl
• Al-Hasan ibn Sahl
• Al-Jahshiyari
• Al-Kindi
• Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi
• Al-Mutanabbi
• Ali ibn Asbat
• Ali ibn Yaqteen
• Awana ibn al-Hakam
• Bahlool
• Burayd ibn Mu'awiya al-'Ijli
• Dawud al-Zahiri
• Grammarians of Kufa
• Hafs
• Hamdan Qarmat
• Hammad Ar-Rawiya
• Hisham ibn al-Hakam
• Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
• Ibn Hawshab
• Ibn Qutaybah
• Ibn al-Ash'ath
• Ibrahim al-Mawsili
• Ishaq al-Mawsili
• Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ammar al-Burjumi
• Jahm bin Safwan
• Maridah bint Shabib
• Mu'min al-Taq
• Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
• Muhammad ibn Salih al-Hashimi
• Muslim ibn al-Walid
• Sufyan al-Thawri
• Umm al-Khair
• Waki' ibn al-Jarrah

People from Najaf Province

• Aban ibn Taghlib
• Abu Hanifa
• Faiq Al Sheikh Ali
• Huda Sajjad Mahmoud Shaker
• Najm al-Din Tabasi

Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in

• Aban ibn Abi Ayyash
• Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
• Abu Hanifa
• Ibrahim ibn Adham
• Malik ibn Anas
• Sufyan al-Thawri

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hanifa

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