Ḥanafiyyah

A school deeply attentive to transmitted texts while giving considered space to qiyās and juristic reasoning.

Founder

ʾAbū Ḥanīfah an-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit

Central Focus

Its central legal concern, hierarchy of sources, and the Ḥanafī use of qiyās, ʾistiḥsān, and the inherited fiqh of the Companions and Tābiʿīn.

26 sections

Overview

Origins, transmitted Kūfan inheritance, scholarly standing, and the school’s spread across the Muslim world.

39 sections

Its central legal concern, hierarchy of sources, and the Ḥanafī use of qiyās, ʾistiḥsān, and the inherited fiqh of the Companions and Tābiʿīn.

33 sections

Well-known practical rulings together with the school’s internal hierarchy for determining the Muʿtamad opinion.

33 sections

Its historical relation to al-Māturīdiyyah, the creed of al-ʾImām ʾAbū Ḥanīfah, and the school’s Sunni theology of transcendence.

37 sections

From the Kūfan teaching circle to codification, imperial expansion, and the later relied-upon canon of the school.