Imam Azam Abu Hanifa (May Allah be well pleased with him) in the opinion of the Imams of the Ummah

 

Imam Azam Abu Hanifa (May Allah be well pleased with him) in the opinion of the Imams of the Ummah

 

Imam Malik (May Allah shower His mercy on him) says:  In Islam, there are 60,000 utterances of Abu Hanifa, meaning that so many rulings of Jurisprudence are from him.  After relating this Tradition, Imam Muwwaffaq (May Allah shower His mercy on him) relates the Tradition of a reliable narrator that Imam Azam Abu Hanifa (May Allah be well pleased with him) has written 83,000 rulings of which 38,000 are about worship and 45,000 are about affairs and dealings.

 

‘Abdullah bin Dawood Khairabi says:  Anyone who desires to free himself of the humiliation of ignorance and desires to learn jurisprudence should study the books of Abu Hanifa.

 

It is also related that Imam Shafa’ee said that the person who doesn’t study the books of Abu Hanifa cannot gain erudition in Jurisprudence (Fiqh).

 

Abu Ishaq says that I pity those people who didn’t gain anything from the knowledge of Abu Hanifa.  These are the people who are bereft of Jurisprudence.

 

Yahya bin Atham says:  I heard from Wahb bin Jareer that he would say:  My father Jareer bin A’azim would exhort me to study the books of Abu Hanifa and he was among those who sat in the study circle of the Imam.

 

Muhammad bin Dawood says:  I once went to ‘Isa bin Younus and saw that books of Abu Hanifa are placed before him and he is reading them.  I asked him:  Do you narrate on his authority?  He said:  I was pleased with him in his life.  Will I be displeased with him after his death?

 

Ma’aroof bin ‘Abdullah says:  Once, I was with ‘Ali bin A’asim.  He told his students:  You people acquire knowledge and jurisprudence.  We said:  That which we learn from you is not knowledge?  He said:  Knowledge is the knowledge of Abu Hanifa.