There Used to Be a Person Living in the Neighborhood of Imam Abu Hanifa
Abū Ḥanīfah, in full Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit, (born 699, Kūfah, Iraq—died 767, Baghdad), Muslim jurist and theologian whose systematization of Islamic legal doctrine was acknowledged as one of the four canonical schools of Islamic law (madhhabs). The Ḥanafī school of Abū Ḥanīfah acquired such prestige that its doctrines were applied by a majority of Muslim dynasties. Even today it is widely followed in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Central… Read More »