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Abū Ḥanīfa
أبو حنيفة النعمان ar ابوحنیفه نعمان بن ثابت fa
8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist
- Dated 5 September 699 CE – 767 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of Abū Ḥanīfa
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 1
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 21
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Jaafar Al-Sadiq Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765) -
Muhammad al-Baqir Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams -
Anas ibn Malik companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad -
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri Arab jurist, scholar and traditionist (677/78-741/42) -
Amir al-Sha'bi Historian
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Ata ibn Abi Rabah Muslim jurist and hadith transmitter (c.646-c.733 CE) -
Tawus ibn Kaysan Tabi'in hadith narrator (died 723) -
Hisham ibn Urwah Muslim scholar (c.680-763) -
Amr ibn Dinar Muslim scholar and jurist (c.666–744 CE) - Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman ↗ Muslim jurist and scholar
- Nafi Mawla ibn Umar ↗ faqih and muhaddith
- Muhammad ibn Munkadir ↗ Reciter of Qur'an
- Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr ↗
- Simak ibn Harb ↗
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Hurmuz ↗ Linguist, reciter of Quran, muhaddith
- Ata ibn al-Saib ↗
- Abd al-Aziz ibn Rufay ↗
- Alqama ibn Marthad ↗
- Jabalah ibn Suhaim ↗
- Muharib ibn Dithar ↗ judge
- Talha ibn Nafi ↗
Abū Ḥanīfa 8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist Taught 11
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Abū Ḥanīfa connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 2
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
32 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 29 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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