The Hanafi (Arabic الحنفي) school is one of the four schools of law (Madhhabs) or jurisprudence (Fiqh) within Sunni Islam. (The other three schools of thought are Shafi'i, Maliki, and Hanbali.) The Hanafi madhhab is named after Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit (Arabic: النعمان بن ثابت) (699 - 767CE /89 - 157AH), and his legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani.
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