Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation. - Abū Ḥanīfa

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Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation.

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About Abū Ḥanīfa

Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān b. Thābit b. Zūṭā b. Marzubān (Arabic: أبو حنيفة نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان‎; c. 699 – 767 CE), known as Abū Ḥanīfa for short, or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Muslims, was an 8th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and jurist of Persian origin, who became the eponymous founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which has remained the most widely practiced law school in the Sunni tradition.

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Native Name: أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ النُّعْمَانُ
Alternative Names: Abu Hanifa Imam Azam The Great Imam The Lamp of the Imams al-Nuʿmān b. al-Ṯābit, Abū Ḥanīfaŧ
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