Manāqib · Çeker §2.31

al-Khayrāt al-Ḥisān

الخيرات الحسان

Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī ابن حجر الهيتمي

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī

One of the best-known biographies of Abū Ḥanīfa: an abridgement of ʿUqūd al-Jumān in forty chapters with additions of his own. Very popular in Ottoman lands.

Draws on

• al-Suyūṭī, Tabyīḍ al-ṢaḥīfaAdopts his view on the reports naming Abū Ḥanīfa.
• al-Ṣāliḥī, ʿUqūd al-JumānAn abridgement of ʿUqūd al-Jumān with additions.

Used by

• Unknown author, al-RayḥānAl-Haytamī is the latest authority cited.
• Nūḥ al-Rūmī, al-Durr al-MunaẓẓamA main source.

Teachers, students, family

• ʿAlī al-Qārī, al-Athmār al-JaniyyaStudent of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī