The Virtues of Imam Abu Hanifa Dar al Taqwa Publications

The Virtues of Imam Abu Hanifa Dar al Taqwa PublicationsIt is an immense pleasure to present this brilliant treatise on the virtues of al Imam al Azam,[1] the Greatest Imam, Imam Abu Hanifa and his two companions Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad ibn al Hasan al Shaybani written by the scholar Imam al Dhahabi. The Hanafi School of fiqh or jurisprudence which comfortably accounts for over half of the Muslims in the world today is named after one of the most outstanding scholars in the history of Islam. Imam

in that rather than being addressed to specialist scholars

Islam teaches that marriage is 'half of religion'

the seventh the generality of believers

In it Ghazali explains the different outer and inner reasons for travel

dhikr or 'invocation

this work attempts to assimilate the most beneficial aspects of all these features

I do not profess that the brief contents within are the sole authority on this issue

ascetic hadith traditionalist

This translation allows the English-speaking audience to benefit from Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Yusuf Motala's vast knowledge

contextualizing its guidance for readers navigating the stormy seas of contemporary times

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