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ABU HANIFA

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ABU HANIFA AN-NU'See also:MAN See also:IBN THABIT, See also:Mahommedan See also:canon lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Kufa in A.H. 8o (A.D. 699) of non-Arab and probably See also:Persian parentage. Few events of his See also:life are known to us with any certainty. He was a See also:silk-dealer and a man of considerable means, so that he was able to give his See also:time to legal studies. He lectured at Kufa upon canon See also:law (figh) and was a consulting lawyer (See also:mufti), but refused steadily to take any public See also:post. When al-Mansur, however, was See also:building See also:Bagdad (145-149) Abu IJanifa was one of the four over-seers whom he appointed over the craftsmen (G. Le See also:Strange, Baghdad during the Abbasid See also:Caliphate, p. 17). In A.1I. 150 (A.D. 767) he died there under circumstances which are very differently reported.

A persistent. but apparently later tradition asserts that he- died in See also:

prison after severe beating, because he refused to obey al-Mansur's command to See also:act as a See also:judge (See also:cadi, gddi). This was to avoid a responsibility for which he See also:felt unfit —a frequent attitude of more pious Moslems. Others say that al-See also:Mandi, son of al-Mansur, actually constrained him to be a judge and that he died a few days after. It seems certain that he did suffer imprisonment and beating for this See also:reason, at the hands of an earlier See also:governor of Kufa under the Omayyads (Ibn Qutaiba, Ma`arif, p. 248). Also that al-Mansur desired to make him judge, but compromised upon his inspectorship of buildings (so in See also:Tabari). A See also:late See also:story is that the judgeship was only a pretext with al-Mansur, who considered him a See also:partisan of the 'Alicia and a helper with his See also:wealth of See also:Ibrahim ibn `Abd See also:Allah in his insurrection at Kufa in 145 (Weil, Geschichte, ii. 53 ff.). For many See also:personal anecdotes see de Slane's transl. of Ibn Khallikan iii. 555 if., iv. 272 if. For his See also:place as a speculative jurist in the See also:history of canon law, see MAHOMMEDAN LAW.

He was buried in eastern Bagdad, where his See also:

tomb still exists, one of the few surviving sites from the time of al-Manur, the founder. (Le Strange 191 ff.) See C. Brockelmann, Geschichte, i. 169 ff.; See also:Nawawi's Biogr. See also:Diet. pp. 698-770; Ibn Hajar al-Haitami's See also:Biography, publ. See also:Cairo, A.H. 1304; legal bibliography under MAHOMMEDAN LAW. (D. B.

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