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Manāqib · Çeker §2.11
Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
مناقب أبي حنيفة
al-Ṣaydalānī الصيدلاني
Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Ibn al-Dakhīl
Written in Mecca by a non-Ḥanafī as a rebuttal of his own teacher al-ʿUqaylī, whose book on weak transmitters criticised Abū Ḥanīfa. Parts can be recovered from later quotations.
Used by
300 500 700 900 1100 1300
Died 388/998 (AH/CE)
Written in Mecca, Hijaz
School Not a Ḥanafī
Language Arabic
Survival Lost Copies, editions No copy known; quoted in Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr's al-Intiqāʾ and in ʿUqūd al-Jumān.
The 4th century AH
Documentation (tadwīn) peaks, centred on Baghdad, with Egypt, Bukhara, Khurasan and Mecca contributing.
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“al-Ṣaydalānī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa”, Hanafi Biographical Atlas, https://hanafiatlas.com/works/al-saydalani-manaqib-abi-hanifa.html. Data after H. Çeker, Traditions of Biographies in the Hanafi Doctrine, §2.11.