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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.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- Dates unrecorded qadi
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 6
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Abū Ḥanīfa 8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist -
Sulayman ibn Mihran al-A’mash Islamic scholar (680 – 764/65) - Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani ↗
- Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari ↗
- Ibn Ishaq ↗
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Also recorded as a student: 1 more record with no English name
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