The Peers and Contemporaries of Imam Abū Ḥanīfah

Answer

Those who attempt to set the venerable Imam apart from the other men of knowledge of his time fail to observe that, right up through the Middle Ages, the venerable Imam has continuously been counted as an heir to the knowledge of the Companions and the Tābiʿūn in exactly the same way as Ḥaḍrat Sufyān ath-Thawrī, Imam al-Awzāʿī, and Imam Mālik and other such mountains of…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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