al-Ḥimmānī (Ibn al-Ṣalt)
Faṣl fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
ʿIrāqالعراق
KufaBaghdadBasraWāsiṭ
ʿIrāq
Kufa is the starting point of the Hanafi scholarly tradition. Abu Hanifa’s teaching circle developed through discussion of legal problems; Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani transmitted and developed that learning. Baghdad then connected teaching, writing and judicial service at the Abbasid court.
Iraq’s importance is therefore more than a birthplace. Its books preserve debates about legal reasoning, teachers and the standing of the school’s founders. The careers of jurists such as al-Karkhi, al-Jassas and al-Quduri also show how a teaching tradition became a substantial written legal literature.
Sources and further reading
Works in this catalogue
Ibn Kās
Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān
Ibn ʿUqda
Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Musnaduhu
al-Marzubānī
Kitāb Abī Ḥanīfa
al-Ṣaymarī
Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
al-Hamadhānī
Ṭabaqāt Aṣḥāb Abī Ḥanīfa
Scholars
أبو حنيفة النعمان بن ثابتAbū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit2428 report appearances
زفر بن الهذيلZufar ibn al-Hudhayl24 report appearances
أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إبراهيمAbū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm106 report appearances
محمد بن الحسن الشيبانيMuḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī50 report appearances
الحسن بن زياد اللؤلؤيal-Ḥasan ibn Ziyād al-Luʾluʾī25 report appearances
عيسى بن أبان بن صدقةʿĪsā ibn Abān ibn Ṣadaqa11 report appearances
أبو بكر أحمد بن عمرو الخصافAbū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Khaṣṣāf1 report appearances
أبو الحسن عبيد الله بن الحسين الكرخيAbū al-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Karkhī14 report appearances
أبو بكر الجصاصAbū Bakr al-Jaṣṣāṣ
أبو الحسين القدوريAbū l-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī
الصيمريal-Ṣaymarī
أبو عبد الله الدامغانيAbū ʿAbd Allāh al-Dāmaghānī
عبد الله بن محمود الموصليʿAbd Allāh al-Mawṣilī
محمود الآلوسيMaḥmūd al-Ālūsī
نعمان خير الدين الآلوسيNuʿmān Khayr al-Dīn al-Ālūsī
محمود شكري الآلوسيMaḥmūd Shukrī al-ĀlūsīManāqib & ṭabaqāt
The Iraqi catalogue moves from works on Abu Hanifa to accounts of his wider circle. Al-Saymari’s Akhbar Abi Hanifa wa-Ashabihi is especially useful for following named transmitters and successive generations. Al-Hamadhani’s Tabaqat Ashab Abi Hanifa broadens the frame from the imam to the school’s scholars.
Compare the surviving reports with the lost works listed below: a later quotation may preserve material from a book no longer available. A chain of transmission identifies how an account was attributed and passed on; its presence alone does not establish the account’s historical reliability.
Sources and further reading
Huzeyfe Çeker · §2.3, §2.5, §2.6, §2.10, §3.1, §3.2
Works in this catalogue
Connections beyond the region
- al-Makkī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Compares oral reports with Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa.
- al-Makkī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa → al-Ḥimmānī (Ibn al-Ṣalt), Faṣl fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
Includes reports from al-Ḥimmānī.
- al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi → al-Ṭaḥāwī, ʿUqūd al-Marjān
Consulted al-Ṭaḥāwī's book.
- al-Arzinjānī, Nuzhat al-Abrār → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Headings and content follow al-Ṣaymarī.
- al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya → al-Hamadhānī, Ṭabaqāt Aṣḥāb Abī Ḥanīfa
Al-Qurashī says he saw the book.
- Ibn Duqmāq, Naẓm al-Jumān → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
The life of Abū Ḥanīfa is taken from al-Ṣaymarī.
- al-Ṣāliḥī, ʿUqūd al-Jumān → Ibn Kās, Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān
Cites Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān frequently.
- al-Ṣāliḥī, ʿUqūd al-Jumān → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
- Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
- al-Qurṭubī, Qalāʾid ʿUqūd al-Durar → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Main addition to the second version.
- Nūḥ al-Rūmī, al-Durr al-Munaẓẓam → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Cited.
- al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Named as an authority.
- al-Tamīmī, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Saniyya → al-Ḥimmānī (Ibn al-Ṣalt), Faṣl fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
Records the contents of the Faṣl.