Ṭabaqāt · Çeker §3.21

Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār

كتائب أعلام الأخيار

al-Kafawī الكفوي

Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān al-Kafawī

The most original compilation after al-Jawāhir: about 700 Ḥanafīs in twenty-two 'squadrons', finished in 987/1579. It tracks who studied with whom back to Abū Ḥanīfa and records each jurist's distinctive legal opinions from the fatwa literature.

Draws on

• al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-AṣḥābihiNamed as an authority.
• al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-MuḍiyyaCited.
• al-Nahrawālī, Ṭabaqāt al-ḤanafiyyaPreserves a page-long excerpt.

Used by

• Kāmī Efendi (al-Edirnevī), Mahāmm al-FuqahāʾNamed as a source.
• al-Laknawī, al-Fawāʾid al-BahiyyaBegun as an abridgement of al-Katāʾib.