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وقال أبو حنيفة: كنت من أهل السوق ولم يكن لي علم إلا علم الكلام، فمررت يوما على الشعبي فدعاني ورغبني في الفقه، فتركت السوق وعلم الكلام وشرعت في تعلم الفقه.
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Abū Ḥanīfa said: “I was a man of the marketplace and knew no science except theology. One day I passed al-Shaʿbī, who called me and encouraged me to study jurisprudence. I left the marketplace and theology and began studying jurisprudence.”
Sources and text notes
al-Zaranjarī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa · Reading edition: Şimşek & Kütük (2018).
- Şimşek & Kütük (2018), printed page 141 · View source page →