꧁Ashfaque Shabab꧂

A lover of knowledge, Atharī in creed, Hanafī in madhhab.

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And they did not take those positions except because they agreed with the stronger evidence in their view.”

📚 The Means to Attaining Success Regarding the Issues in Which Fatwā Is Given (in the madhhab of Al-Imām Abū Hanīfah) According to the Opinion of Zufar, page - 4.

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Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rahmān Āl Ismā‘īl states in the introduction to the tahqīq of Shaykh al-Mullā al-Ahsā’ī’s Wasīlat al-Zafar fī al-Masā’il allatī Yuftā Fīhā bi-Qawli Zufar, by al-‘Allāmah ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Mullā al-Hanafī, the following: “As for Zufar (Ibn Hudhayl),–

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al-Shaykh al-‘Allāmah the muhaqqiq of al-Qasīm, ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sa‘dī, His Eminence the hadīth scholar al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Bāz, and the virtuous Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sālih al-‘Uthaymīn are the madhhab of Al-Imām Abū Hanīfah upon which fatwā is given.

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See Kashf al-Āthār (2/251). Rather, the biographical works contain many reports from ‘Abdullāh ibn al-Mubārak in which he supplicates for mercy upon Abū Hanīfah, praises Abū Hanīfah, and transmits the statements of Abū Hanīfah, all of that after the death of Abū Hanīfah.”

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Refuting the False Allegation That Ibn al-Mubārak Abandoned the Opinions of Abū Hanīfah.

Shams al-A’immah al-Zaranjarī mentioned that al-Shaykh Abū ‘Abdillāh ibn Abī Hafs, may Allāh have mercy upon him, said: “Some of the attackers and the envious say that ‘Abdullāh ibn–

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Imām ‘Abdullāh ibn al-Mubārak said: ‘Were it not that Allāh, Exalted is He, aided me through Abū Hanīfah and Sufyān (al-Thawrī), I would have been like the rest of the people.’

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believe him, for he is a liar.’”

📚 Manāqib al-Imām Abī Hanīfah.

Sh. Muhammad Wā’il al-Hanbalī comments: “Ibrāhīm ibn Shammās claimed this regarding Ibn al-Mubārak, but the companions of Ibn al-Mubārak refuted him, declared him a liar, and rejected that from him.

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The Mufassir al-Kalbī saw Abū Hanīfah and said to his students:

“No one has asked me anything whose answer was easier for me, except this one, for his questioning is heavier upon me than a mountain.”

📚 al-Bazzāzī, Manāqib Abī Hanīfah.

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‘Ammār ibn Muhammad said:

“Abū Hanīfah was sitting in al-Masjid al-Harām, and upon him was a great crowd from all horizons, who had gathered around him. They would ask him from every side, and he would answer them and give them fatāwā, as if the questions were in his sleeve; he–

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would show him the manner of reconciliation between them, which of them is to be given precedence over others, and they would clarify to him their meanings.”

📚 Qawā‘id fī ‘Ulūm al-Hadīth, p. 311.

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Imām ‘Abdullāh ibn al-Mubārak said: ‘Were it not that Allāh, Exalted is He, aided me through Abū Hanīfah and Sufyān (al-Thawrī), I would have been like the rest of the people.’

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Latīf al-Rahmān al-Bahrā’ijī al-Qāsimī:

“Therefore, from this it becomes apparent that these great Huffādh and leading critics, al-Imām al-Hāfidh Mughlatāy, Al-Imām al-Hāfidh al-Bulqīnī, al-Hāfidh al-‘Irāqī, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī, and al-Hāfidh al-Suyūtī, all–

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Prof. ‘Abd al-Fattāh Abū Guddah comments: “Meaning, that Allāh, Exalted is He, saved him through Abū Hanīfah and Sufyān al-Thawrī from the confusion and disturbance that befall a narrator when hadīths conflict and narrations differ. So they, may Allāh be pleased with them,–

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*some of the Companions. So, by this consideration, he is from the generation of the Tābi‘īn. This has not been established for any of the imāms of the regions who were his contemporaries, such as al-Awzā‘ī in al-Shām, the two Hammāds in al-Basrah, al-Thawrī in al-Kūfah, Mālik–

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Imām Abū Hanīfah: The Only Tābi‘ī Among the Four Imāms.

– Shaykh ‘Āmir Bahjat al-Hanbalī

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Imām Abū Hanīfah Narrated from the Sahābah.

‘Alī al-Qārī said in Manāqib al-Imām Abī Hanīfah: "It has been established that he (Abū Hanīfah) saw some of the Sahābah. There is disagreement regarding his narration from them, but the relied-upon view is that it is established, as–

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Al-Hāfidh Abū al-Fadl Ibn Hajar said in his Fatāwā: “Ibn Sa‘d has narrated, with a chain of transmission in which there is no objection, that Abū Hanīfah saw Anas, may Allāh, the Exalted, be pleased with him. He said: This is the relied-upon report concerning his having seen–

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Among the scholars who stated that he is a Tābiʿī are: al-Walī al-‘Irāqī, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī, al-Suyūtī, al-Qārī, Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Yāfi‘ī, al-Dhahabī, al-Mizzī, Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Nawawī, Ibn Hajar al-Haytamī, al-Laknawī, Ibn ‘Ābidīn and others.

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in al-Madīnah, Muslim ibn Khālid al-Zanjī in Makkah, and al-Layth ibn Sa‘d in Egypt.”