Imam Azam Abu Hanifa Introduction with Books

Are you looking Imam Azam Abu Hanifa Introduction and biography? We will tell you Imam Azam Abu Hanifa’s status and position and brief introduction as it is evident from your title, you hold the highest position and rank among all Imams.

The position of Hazrat Imam Azam Abu Hanifa is very high in Islamic jurisprudence. Your real name is Nu’man bin Thabit. He was born in Kufa in 80 A.H 699 CE.

Teachers

He studied jurisprudence from his teacher Hamad bin Abi Sulaiman. The first class of your teachers is the Companions of the Prophet and you are unique in that you are submissive.

He acquired the knowledge of Hadith from the Companions. Apart from you, there is no Imam is tibiae among the Imams of Hadith and Imams of Fiqh, including Imam Malik. He visited the Companions directly and heard the hadiths of the Prophet from them.

Imam Azam made a special trip to three places to acquire the knowledge of Hadith. You acquired knowledge of hadith first in Kufa because you were a resident of Kufa and Kufa was a great center of knowledge of hadith.

It is as if he was born in the house of knowledge of Hadith, studied there, became the heir of the greatest knowledge of Kufa, Imam-e-Azam himself. The second place was Makkah Madinah. From where you derived hadiths and the third place was Basra.

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Imam Azam Abu Hanifa Introduction

Imam Abu Hanifa got knowledge from about 4 thousand teachers. Once a dispute arose between the disciples of Hazrat Imam Azam (may Allah have mercy on him) and Imam Shafi’i (may Allah have mercy on him). Each group claimed the excellence of its Imam.

Hazrat Imam Abu Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) decided between the two and said to the Companions of Shafi’i First, count the teachers of your imam, when they were counted, there were 80.

Then he said to the Companions of imam Azam: Now you count the teachers of your imam, when he counted them, it was found that they were four thousand. Thus the number of teachers decided the dispute. Now you count the teachers of your imam, when he counted them, it was found that they were four thousand. Thus the number of teachers decided the dispute. He was an Imam in both fields of jurisprudence and hadith.

Students

Hazrat Imam Abu Hanifa (may Allah have mercy on him) had about a thousand students, among whom forty people were very distinguished and they had reached the level of Ijtihad. He was also your special advisor. Some of them are:

  • Imam Abu Yusuf
  • Imam Muhammad bin Hasan al-Sheibani
  • Imam Hamad bin Abi Hanifa
  • Imam Zafar bin Huzail
  • Imam Abdullah bin Mubarak
  • Imam Waqi’ bin Jarrah
  • Imam Dawood bin Naseer

Books

Some of your famous books are:

  • Al-Fiqh hul-aKbar
  • Al-Fiqh hul-aBst
  • Al-Aalim wal Muta’ali
  • Risala Imam Abi Hanifa ILA Uthman al-Batti
  • Will of Imam Abi Hanifa

In addition, the author of Sahih al-Bukhari, the most accurate book after the Holy Quran, Imam Muhammad bin Ismail Bukhari and other great hadith scholars were students of his students.

Status and position

He was very intelligent and sharp memory person. His asceticism, piety, understanding and wisdom were very famous. You finished Quran 7 thousand times in your blessed life. Pray all five prayers with one ablution for 45 years. Imam Abu Hanifah, may Allah have mercy on him, who finished the entire Holy Qur’an in the two Nafls of the night, spread knowledge during the day and worshiped at night.

The imams of hadith mention you and say that on one side you are the ocean of knowledge and on the other side are the mountains of asceticism, piety and purity.

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Method of Ijtihad

Imam-e-Azam describes his method of Ijtihad as follows:

First of all, I derive the ruling of an issue from the Book of Allah, and then if I do not find that issue there, I take it from the Sunnah of the Prophet. When I cannot find it there, I accept the words of any of the sayings of the Companions, and I do not accept the words of others except their words.

And when it comes to Ibrahim Shaabi, Ibn Sirin and Ata, these people were also Mujahids, and at that time I also perform ijtihads like these people.

Your Ijtihad problems have been spreading in all Islamic countries for almost twelve hundred years. Therefore, in the great Islamic empires, your jurisprudence was the rule and even today most of the Islamic world is following your religion.

Died

He died in 150 AH in Baghdad Sharif. The world of popularity was that for the first time there was a congregation of more or less fifty thousand in the funeral prayer. There was also a steady stream of visitors until the funeral prayer was offered six times.


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