Guarding Against Error: Ḥadīth Above Personal Opinion — In Abū Ḥanīfah's Own Words

Answer

The words "reports and narrations" (akhbār wa āthār) show that, at first, whatever store of the Qur'an and Sunnah the [assembled] scholars possessed would be recited aloud; then the treasury of the Qur'an and Sunnah preserved in the knowledge of the chairman of the assembly [Abū Ḥanīfah himself] would be presented.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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