The Hanafi Sect This sect is called the Hanafī sect because of its imām...

The Hanafi Sect This sect is called the Hanafī sect because of its imām, Abī Hanīfah. Abī Hanīfah's full name is al-Nu‛mān bin Thābit bin Zūtī al-Fārsī. His forefathers were from Kabul. Abī Hanīfah was born in the 80thA.H. and died in the year 150 in Baghdad. Abī Hanīfah grew up in Kūfa and spent half of his lifetime working as a merchant before he became a seminary student and teacher. He studied under Hammād bin Abī Salamah for eighteen years before he became a scholar himself.

He was one of the big scholars of his time and reached the level of ijtihād . He accepted voting and syllogism qiyas in addition…