The Virtues of Imam Abu Hanifa, And His Two Companions Abu Yusuf And Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan

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 Abu Hanifa a second generation Muslim who met a number of Sahabah, is one of just four Mujtahid Imams whose madhabs or schools of law not only survived but gave birth to principles of law that had a profound impact in the shaping of the medieval world.

Imam Abu Hanifa's systematization of Islamic legal doctrine was to have an integral part in the development of many areas of the Shariah and would pave the way for the spread of Islam in many parts of the world resulting most notably the Osmani Caliphate (or Ottoman Empire) and Mughal rule in the Indian sub-continent.