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Abu Hanifah (al-Nu'man ibn Thabit)(born 699, Kufah, Iraq—died 767, Baghdad) Muslim jurist and theologian. The son of a merchant in Kufah, he gained wealth in the silk trade and studied law under the noted jurist Hammad. After Hammad's death (738), Abu Hanifah became his successor. He was the first to develop systematic legal doctrines from the accumulated Islamic legal tradition. Primarily a scholar, he neither accepted a judgeship nor took direct part in court politics; he supported the successors of 'Ali over the ruling Umayyad and 'Abbasid dynasties. His doctrinal system became one of four canonical schools of Islamic law (Sharia) and is still widely followed in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Central Asia, and Arab countries. |
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The Zaidis can be said to follow a path close to that of the Mutazilites, while in the branches or derivative institutions of the law they apply the jurisprudence of Abu Hanifah, the founder of one of the four Sunni schools of law. Abu Hanifah, the founder of one of the four Sunni schools of law, was imprisoned by the Abbasid ruler Al Mansur and whipped. |
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