Hazrat imam abu hanifa

About Hazrat imam abu hanifa

Abu Ḥanifah was born in the city of Kufa in Iraq,[9][10] during the reign of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.

His grandfather Zuta is said to have been brought as a slave from Kabul and transported to Kufa, where Abu Ḥanifah was born. He studied at Kufa and gradually gained influence as an authority on legal questions, founding a moderate rationalist school of Islamic jurisprudence that was named after him.

It's being said that his family emigrated from Charikar north of Kabul to Baghdad in the eighth century.

His ancestry is generally accepted as being of Persian origin as suggested by the etymology of the names of his grandfather (Zuta) and great-grandfather (Mah). The historian Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi records a statement from Imam Abu Ḥanifah grandson, Ismail bin Hammad, who gave Abu Ḥanīfah lineage as Thabit bin Numan bin Marzban and claiming to be of Persian origin. The discrepancy in the names, as given by Ismail of Abu Ḥanifah grandfather and great-grandfather, are thought to be due to Zuta's adoption of the Arabic name (Numan) upon his acceptance of Islam and that Mah and Marzban were titles or official designations in Persia, with the latter, meaning a margrave, referring to the noble ancestry of Abu Ḥanifah family as the Sasanian Marzbans (equivalent of margraves). The widely accepted opinion, however, is that most probably he was of Persian ancestry .