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Imam Zufar

زفر بن الهذيل ar زفر بن هذیل fa

8th century Hanafi scholar

  • Dated 728 CE – 775 CE
  • Also called Zufar ibn Hudhayl, Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

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