Abstract
This article will focus on a rare manuscript devoted to the description of life, work, eyewitness accounts and legends about Abu Hanifa and little-known facts of his biography. The author of this relatively fully preserved manuscript is Abul Muayyad Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Khorezmi (d. 665 AH, 1266-67 A.D.). In Islamic studies, he is better known as the author of the work “Jami Masanid al-Imam al-Azam”. The book, to which this article is devoted, is currently kept in the Istanbul Sulaimoniy Library in the section of rare manuscripts under number 1631 and is called “Manahib Abi Hanifa”. The last page of this 192-sheet work states that the manuscript was completed in mid-January 1389 (in 791 according to the lunar Muslim calendar, Hijri). The size of the pages is 27x20 cm, the text is 16x11 cm, on average 23 lines fit on one page.
Highlights
In Islamic and religious studies literature, one can find a fairly large amount of information about the founder of the Hanafi madhhab in Islam, whose name is Abu Hanifa an-Numan ibn Sabit
Abu Hanifa was from Kufa, which at that time was the most powerful center of hadiths since many companions of the Prophet Muhammad lived in this city
Abu Hanifa Numan ibn Sobit al-Kufiy is mentioned here as a scientist - a follower of the Prophet Muhammad, statements about him are given by the scholars of Balkh and Baghdad
Summary
In Islamic and religious studies literature, one can find a fairly large amount of information about the founder of the Hanafi madhhab in Islam, whose name is Abu Hanifa an-Numan ibn Sabit Abu Hanifa Numan ibn Sobit al-Kufiy is mentioned here as a scientist - a follower of the Prophet Muhammad, statements about him are given by the scholars of Balkh and Baghdad. The role of Abu Hanifa in the settlement of legal and source studies disputes among the scientists of Baghdad and Khizhaz cities that were at that time the center of Muslim science, is enormous. He was distinguished by his justice, self-exactingness, piety [Manuscript 1631, 2b].
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