مناقب الإمام
أبي حنيفة وصاحبيه أبي يوسف ومحمد بن يوسف
Manaqib
al-Imam Abi Hanifa wa Sahibayh Abi Yusuf wa Muhammad bin al-Hassan
Authored By:
Imam
al-Dhahbi
Tahqiq By: Imam
Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari & Abu al-Wafa al-Afghani
Paperback 96 Pages
Published by Jannat Ihya al-Ma'arif al-Nu'maniyyah
About the
Book:
This title is a small book or an epistle by the foremost expert in Hadith;
al-Imam al-Dhahabi. In it he clarifies Imam Abi Hanifa's position in Knowledge
of Fiqh as well as Hadith. Since the author is an authority in the field of Jarh
wal Ta'dil, his conclusion regarding contemporary issues namely that Imam Abu
Hanifa was not strong in Hadith or that he was weak in that field will be put to
rest.
al-Imam Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari, al-Hanafi, who was one of the last 'Ottoman
scholars has edited this book along with Abu Wafa al-Afghani. This makes this
small title more attractive as it contains ocean of information.
AN EXCELLENT WORK.
About the Author:
The Author Muhammad bin Ahmad bin `Uthman bin Qaymaz at Turkamani, Shams al-Din
al-Dimashqi al-Dhahabi al-Shafi`i (673-748 AH), the imam, Shaykh al-Islam, head
of hadith masters, critic and expert examiner of the hadith, encyclopedic
historian and biographer, and foremost authority in the canonical readings of
the Qur'an. Born in Damascus where his family lived from the time of his
grandfather `Uthman, he sometimes identified himself as Ibn al-Dhahabi - son of
the goldsmith - in reference to his father's profession.
al-Dhahabi (may Allah have mercy on him) is considered one of the foremost
authorities in critically scrutinizing the reporters of Hadith (ilm al-asma wa
‘l-rijal). He compiled many works in this regard such as Mizan al-I’tidal fi
Naqd al-Rijal (The Scale of Justice in Critically Examining the Reporters),
Siyar A’lam al-Nubala (The Lives of Noble Figures), Al-Mughni fi ‘l-Du’afa (an
authoritative abridged manual of weak narrators) and Tadhkirat al-Huffaz (The
Memoirs of the Hadith Masters). In his work, Mizan al-I’tidal, Imam Dhahabi (may
Allah have mercy on him) deals with a large number of reporters, both the
authenticated/reliable and the criticized/unreliable, although he does mention
in his introduction to the book that he will not include the biographies of the
Companions (sahaba) and renowned authorities of Islam. He states:
“Similarly, I will not mention in my book [i.e. Mizan al-I’tidal] any of the
followed Imams of Furu’ (Fiqh and other subsidiary matters of religion) due to
their loftiness in Islam and prominence in the hearts [of people], such as Abu
Hanifa, Shafi’i and Bukhari...” (See: Mizan al-I’tidal 1/3, taken from Shaykh
Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghudda’s footnotes on Imam Lakhnawi’s Al-Raf’ wa ‘l-Takmil P:
122)
About the Editor:
Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawthari al-Hanafi al-Ash`ari
(1296-1371), the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Caliphate
and a major Hanafi jurist praised by Imam Muhammad Abu Zahra as a Reviver (mujaddid)
of the fourteenth Islamic century. He studied under his father as well as the
scholar of Qur'an and hadith Ibrahim Haqqi (d. 1345), Shaykh Zayn al-`Abidin al-Alsuni
(d. 1336), Shaykh Muhammad Khalis al-Shirwani, al-Hasan al-Aztuwa'i, and others.
When the Caliphate fell he moved to Cairo, then Sham, then Cairo again until his
death, where the late Shaykhs `Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda and `Abd Allah al-Ghumari
became his students. Following is his prestigious chain of transmission in fiqh.
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