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إن الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنَسْتَعِينُهُ ونستغفره ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلَا مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ

قال الله تعالى يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ

وقال تعالى يَاأَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالا كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاءً وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالأَرْحَامَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا

وقال تعالى يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلا سَدِيدًا يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَمَنْ يُطِعِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا

فإن أَصْدَقُ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَأَحْسَنُ الْهَدْيِ هَدْيُ مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَشَرُّ الأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا وَكُلُّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ وَكُلُّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلالَةٌ وَكُلُّ ضَلالَةٍ فِي النَّارِ

أَمَّا بَعْدُ

وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا

“And say: The truth has come and the falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is a vanishing (thing).” {Surah Al-Isra, Ayah 81}

وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَتَكْتُمُوا الْحَقَّ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

“And do not mix up the truth with the falsehood, nor hide the truth while you know (it).” {Surah Al-Baqara, Ayah 42}

And in this age of deception and fitnah, and like Ali radiyAllahuanhu said: “Truth will be covered and falsehood will be shown.”

We muslims gave promise to Allah and His Prophet (sal-lAllahu alayhi wa salam) that we will speak truth and we dont care for blame of the blamers.

Majority of pseudosalafis always hiding truth from common folks, and they do this because when famous name it's in question they are not brave enough to speak truth and show reality to the people.

And no we are not jews and if someone wants to blame someone let him be brave and blame Salaf because we here brought statements from Ulama of Sunnah, and their books of Sunnah are filled with statements against Abu Hanifa, and they spoke against his deviations and warned people from him.

And we ask Allah Tabarake wa Ta'ala those who seek truth to follow dalil and below are numerous fatwas from Salaf.

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Sayings of Salaf regarding Abu Hanifa

From the Book as-Sunnah by Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal

What I memorized from my father and others than him regarding Abū
Hanīfah

Abū ‘Abdur-Rahmān ‘Abdullāh ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal – rahimahumallāh – said:

What I memorized from my father and others than him among the mashāyikh (pl. shaykh) regarding Abū Hanīfah.

179 – I heard my father say: From Abdur-Rahmān ibn Mahdī that he said: “From the best of knowledge of a man, is that he looks in the opinion of Abū Hanīfah.”

180 – And it was narrated to me from Ishāq ibn Mansūr Al-Kawsaj that he said: “I said to Ahmad ibn Hanbal: ‘Is a man rewarded for hating Abū Hanīfah and his companions?’ He said: ‘Yes
by Allāh.’”

181 – I asked my father – rahimahullāh – about a man who wants to ask about something
from the matters of his religion – regarding what he is tested in of oath in divorce and other things – in the presence of the people from the people of rai (opinion) and from the people of hadīth who did not memorize nor do they know the hadīth with a weak isnād and with a strong isnād, then who should he ask, the people of rai or the people of hadīth despite of the lack in knowledge that they have? He said: “He should ask the people of hadīth and should not ask the people of rai. The weak hadīth is better than the opinion of Abū Hanīfah.”

182 – Muhannah ibn Yahyā Ash-Shāmī narrated to me (and said): I heard Ahmad ibn Hanbal – radiAllāhu ‘anhu – say: “For me the opinion of Abū Hanīfah and farness, are the same.”

183 – Mahmud ibn Ghaylān narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Sa’īd ibn Salm narrated to us, from his father who said: I asked Abū Yūsuf5 while he was in Gorgan about Abū Hanīfah, so he said: “What do you want with him, he died as a jahmī.”

184 – Ismā’īl ibn Ishāq Al-Azdī Al-Qādī narrated to me (and said): Nasr ibn ‘Alī narrated to me and said: Al-Asma’ī narrated to us from Sa’īd ibn Salm who said: “I said to Abū Yūsuf: Did Abū Hanīfah used to say the same as Jahm? He said: Yes.”

185 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me (and said): Ibrāhīm ibn Shammās As-Samarqandī narrated to me and said: “A man said to Ibn Al-Mubārak while we were with him:
‘Verily Abū Hanīfah was a murjī who would see the sword (i.e. consider it to be permissible to rebel against the Muslim leader).’ And Ibn Al-Mubārak did not criticize him for (saying) that.”

186 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā Al-Ashyab narrated to us and said: “I heard Abū Yūsuf say: ‘Abū Hanīfah used to see the sword (against the Muslim leader permissible).’ I said: ‘And you?’ He said: ‘I seek refuge with Allāh (from that).’”

187 – Abū Musa Al-Ansari narrated to me (and said): I heard Ismail ibn Hammad ibn Abū Hanīfah say: “That is his religion and the religion of his fathers; i.e that the Qurān is created.”

188 – Ishāq ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmān narrated to me, from Hasan ibn Abū Mālik, from AbūYūsuf who said: “The first one to say that the Qurān is created was Abū Hanīfah.”

189 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Khālid ibn Khidāsh narrated to us, from Abdul-Mālik ibn Qarīb Al-Asma’ī, from Hāzim At-Tufāwī – and he was from the people of
hadīth – who said: “Abū Hanīfah used to act upon the books of Jahm, they would come to him from Khurasān.”

190 – Sufyān ibn Wakī’ narrated to me and said: I heard ‘Umar ibn Hammād ibn AbūHanīfah say: Abū Hammād ibn Abū Hanīfah narrated to me and said: “Ibn Abū Laylah sent a message to my father saying: ‘Repent from what you say that the Qurān is created, or else I will come to you with what you hate.’ He said: ‘So he followed him in that. So I said: Oh my father, why did you do that? He said: O my son, I was afraid that he would come to me and I would say some taqiyyah.”

What Hammād ibn Abū Sulaymān said regarding Abū Hanīfah

191 – ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Awn ibn Al-Kharrāz Abū Muhammad narrated to me – and he was trustworthy – and said: A Shaykh from the people of Kūfah narrated to us (and said): “It was said to ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Awn: ‘He (i.e. Abū Hanīfah) is the father of Al-Jahm.’ So it was as if he acknowledges that (when) he said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Hammād ibn Abū Sulaymān said to me: Go to that kāfir – i.e. Abū Hanīfah – and say to him: If you say that the Qurān is created, then to do not approach us.”

192 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: ‘Alī ibn Mihrān Ar-Rāzī, from Muhammad ibn Jābir who said: “I heard Hammād ibn Abū Sulaymān cursing Abū Hanīfah.”

193 – Ishāq ibn Abū Ya’qūb At-Tūsī narrated to me (and said): Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Yūnus narrated to us, from Salm Al-Muqrī, from Sufyan Ath-Thawrī who said: I heard Hammād say: “Is it not strange that Abū Hanīfah says: The Qurān is created. Say to him: You kāfir, you zindīq.”

Abū ‘Amr Al-Awzā’ī

194 – ‘Abdah ibn Abdur-Rahīm from the people of Merv narrated to me and said: We entered upon Abdul-‘Azīz ibn Abū Rizmah, while visiting him, me, Ahmad ibn Shubbawayh and ‘Alī ibn Yūnus, so ‘Abdul-‘Azīz said to me: ‘O Abū Sa’īd, I used to have a secret which I would keep from you but now I want to inform you.’ And he took his hand out from his mattress and said: I heard Ibn Al-Mubārak say: I heard Al-Awzā’ī say: “We tolerated this from Abū Hanīfah – and he folded his finger – and we tolerated this from him – and he folded his second finger – and we tolerated this from him – and he folded his third finger – of mistakes, until it came to lifting the sword against the ummah of Muhammad (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam).
So when it came to lifting the sword against the ummah of Muhammad (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) then we could not tolerate it.”

195 – Mansūr ibn Abū Muzāhim narrated to me (and said): I head Yazīd ibn Yūsuf Al-Himyārī, from Al-Awzā’ī that he used to criticize Abū Hanīfah with the most severe of
criticism.

I heard my father – rahimahullāh – say: “And I verily saw Yazīd Ibn Yūsuf as an old man, and it used to be said: that he heard from Hassān ibn ‘Atiyyah, and I saw him with a yellow cloth around the hip.”

196 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ad-Dawraqī narrated to me (and said): “Muhammad ibn Kathīr As-San’ānī narrated to me, from Al-Awzā’ī, that he mentioned Abū Hanīfah and said: “I don’t know him except as one who undo the knots of Islām.”

197 – Abū Al-Fad Al-Khurasānī narrated to me (and said): Sunayd ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Kathīr Al-Missīsī who said that Al-Awzā’ī mentioned Abū Hanīfah and then he said: “He is undoing the knots of Islām, one knot after another.”

198 Abū Al-Fad Al- Khurasānī narrated to me and said: Surayj ibn An-Nu’mān narrated to us, from Hajjāj ibn Muhammad who said: “It has reached me from Al-Awzā’ī that Abū Hanīfah
threw away the usūl and turned to qiyās.”

199 – Al-Hasan ibn Abdul-‘Aziz Al-Jarawi narrated to me and said: Abū Hafs At-Tinnisi narrated to us from Al-Awza’i that he said: “Nobody was born in Islam that is worse than Abū Hanīfah and Abū Muslim. And would not love that it befell my soul that I am better than any of them or that I would have the dunyā and what is in it.”

201 – ‘Abdullāh ibn Ahmad ibn Shabbuwayh narrated to me and said: My father said: I heard ‘Abdul-‘Azīz ibn Abū Rizmah say: I heard Ibn Al-Mubārak say: “I said to Al-Awza’i when leaving: Give me advice. So he said: ‘I had on my mind to do it even if you would have said so.
You have spoken favorably about a man in front of me, who would see the sword against the ummah of Muhammad.’ So I said: Why did not you advise me then (not to do so)? He said: ‘I had on my mind to do it (no matter what).”

202 – Muhammad ibn Hārūn Abū Nashīt narrated to me and said: Abū Sālih Al-Farrā narrated to us (and said): I heard Al-Fazārī – and that is Abū Ishāq – say: Al-Awzā’ī said to
me: “That which we resent Abū Hanīfah for is that he would come to the hadīth of the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) and then he would contradict it with something else.”

203 – Muhammad ibn Hārūn narrated to me and said: Abū Sālih narrated to us and said: I heard Al-Fazārī and Sufyān both say: “Nobody was born in Islām that are more calamitous for
this ummah, then Abū Hanīfah.”

Ayyūb As-Sikhtiyānī and Ibn ‘Awn

204 – Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh Al-Mukharrimī narrated to me, from Sa’īd ibn ‘Āmir who: said I heard Salām ibn Abū Mutī’ say: “I was with Ayyūb As-Sikhtiyānī in Al-Masjid Al-Harām
when Abū Hanīfah saw him and came towards him. Then when Ayyūb saw him he said to his companions: ‘Get up so he doesn’t afflict us with his mistakes, get up so he doesn’t afflict us with his mistakes.’”

205 – Abū Ma’mar Al-Hudhalī narrated to me and said: It was narrated to me from Hammād ibn Zayd who said: I heard Ayyūb say: “Verily did Abū Hanīfah leave this religion while it is
tenderer than a soft cloth.”

206 – Mahmūd ibn Ghīlān narrated to me and said: Muammal narrated to us and said: ‘Amr ibn Qays narrated to us, (from) Sharīk Ar-Rabī’ ibn Subayh who said: I heard Ibn ‘Awn say: “Nobody was born in Islām more calamitous for the people of Islām than Abū Hanīfah.”

207 – Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Shabbuwayh narrated to me and said: I heard my father say: I heard An-Nadr ibn Shumayl say: I heard Ibn ‘Awn say: “It has reached me that there is a man in Kūfah who answers the ambiguous, i.e. Abū Hanīfah.”

Sulaymān Al-A’mash and Mughīrah Ad-Dabbī and other than them

208 – ‘Abdah ibn ‘Abdur-Rahīm narrated to me (and said): I heard Mu’arraf say: “Abū Hanīfah entered upon Al-A’mash to visit him. So he said: ‘O Abū Muhammad, if it was not that me coming to visit is burdensome for you, I would have visited you every day.’ So Al-A’mash said: ‘Who is this?’ They said: ‘Abū Hanīfah.’ So he said: ‘O Ibn An-Nu’man, you by Allāh is burdensome in your own home, then how about when you come to me.’”

210 – Ishāq ibn Mansūr Al-Kawsaj narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Yūsuf Al-Firyābī narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “It was said to Sawwār: ‘If you looked into some of the words of Abū Hanīfah and his judgments.’ So he said: ‘How should I accept from a man who is not given leniency in his religion?’”

211 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me (and said): Mu’ādh ibn Mu’ādh narrated to us (and said): I heard ‘Uthmān Al-Battī say one day: “Woe to Abū Hanīfah, he never makes a mistake which would cause him to be right (i.e. everything he says is wrong).”

Raqabah ibn Masqalah

212 – I heard my father say: “A man passed by Raqabah, so Raqabah said to him: ‘Where did you come from?’ So the man said: ‘From Abū Hanīfah.’ So he said: ‘Words that you did not chew, and you return to your family without any reliability.’”

213 – ‘Abdur-Rahmān ibn Sālih Al-Azdī narrated to me and said: Abū Bakr ibn ‘Ayyāshnarrated to us from Raqabah, that he said to a man: ”Where did you come from? He said: ‘From Abū Hanīfah.’ So he said: ‘You came from a man who would make you lean towards an opinion that you did not chew, and you get up (from him) without any reliability.’”

214 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me and said: Ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us and said: “We were with Raqabah, then his son came, so he said to him: ‘From where?’ So he said: ‘From Abū Hanīfah.’
So he said: ‘Then he will give you an opinionthat you did not chew, and you return with no reliability.’”

Sufyān ibn Sa’īd Ath-Thawrī rahimahullāh

215 – My father narrated to me and said: Shu’ayb ibn Harb narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “I do not love to agree with them upon the truth.” I said to my father –rahimahullāh – does this mean Abū Hanīfah? He said: “Yes. A man was asked to repent two times in in Islām, i.e. Abū Hanīfah.” I said to my father: It is as if Abū Hanīfah was the one who was asked to repent? He said: “Yes.” I heard my father say: “I think he was asked to repent from this verse: “Praised is your Lord, the Lord of Honor, from what they attribute to Him.” (As-Sāffāt 37:180) Abū Hanīfah said: This is created. So they said to him: This is kufr and they asked him to repent.’”

216 – My father – rahimahullāh – narrated to me and said: Muammal ibn Ismā’īl narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent two times.”

217 – Abū Bakr ibn Khallād Al-Bāhlī narrated to me and said: I heard Yahyā ibn Sa’īd say: Sufyān narrated to us and said: “The companions of Abū Hanīfah asked Abū Hanīfah to repent
two times.”

218 – ‘Ubayd-Allāh ibn Mu’ādh Al-‘Anbarī narrated to me and said: I heard my father say: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from kufr two times.”

219 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Kurasānī narrated to me, from Salamah ibn Shabīb, from Al-Firyābī (who said): I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from the words of the zanādiqah (heretics) several times.”

220 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) narrated to me (and said): Aswad ibn ’Āmir narrated to me, from Ja’far ibn Ziyād Al-Ahmar, from Sufyān who said: ”Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent two times.”

221 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, from Haytham ibn Jamīl (who said): Ibn Sumay’Al-Ashja’ī narrated to me while narrating from Sufyān Ath-Thawrī who said: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from kufr two times.”

222 – Abū Bakr ibn Abū ‘Awn narrated to me, from Mu’ādh, from Sufyān who mentioned Abū Hanīfah and said: “His companions asked him to repent from kufr more than one time.”

223 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ad-Dawraqī narrated to me (and said): Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā An-Nasāī narrated to us and said: I heard ‘Abdah ibn ‘Abdullāh narrated from Shu’ayb ibn Harb who said: “Sufyān Ath-Thawrī said to me: ‘Go to this man – i.e. Abū Hanīfah – and ask him about the ‘iddah for the mother of a son, if her master dies from her.’ So I went to him and asked him, so he said: ‘She has no ‘iddah.’ He said: So I returned to Sufyān and informed him, so he said: ‘This
is a jewish fatwā.’”

224 – My father narrated to me (and said): Muammal ibn Ismā’īl narrated to us, from Sufyān who said: ‘Abbād ibn Kathīr narrated to me and said: “’Umar ibn… said to me: ‘Ask Abū
Hanīfah about a man who says: I know that the Ka’bah is true and that it is the house of Allāh – ‘azza wa jalla – but I don’t know if it is the Ka’bah which is in Makkah or the one in Khurasān, is he a believer?’ He said: ‘He is a believer.’ So he said to me: ‘Ask him about a man who says: ‘I know that Muhammad (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) is true and that he is a messenger, but I don’t know if he
is the one who was in Madīnah or another Muhammad, is he a believer?’ He said: ‘He is a believer.’”

225 – Hārūn ibn ‘Abdullāh narrated to me, from ‘Abdullāh ibn Az-Zubayr Al-Humaydī, from Hamzah ibn Al-Hārith ibn ‘Umair, from the family of ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (radiAllāhu ‘anhu), from his father who said: “I heard a man ask Abū Hanīfah about Al-Masjid Al-haram regarding a man who said: ‘I testify that Al-Ka’bah is true but I don’t know if it is this one or not?’

So he said: ‘He is a true believer.’ And he asked him about a man who said: ‘I testify that Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh is a prophet, but I don’t know if he is the one whose grave is in Madīnah or not.’ So he said: ‘He is a true believer.’” Al-Humaydī said: Whoever says this has verily committed kufr. Al-Humaydī said: And Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah used to narrate from Hamzah ibn Al-Hārith. Hārūn narrated to me and said: Al-Humaydī narrated to us and said: Muammal ibn Ismāīl narrated to us, from Ath-Thawrī – rahimahullāh – something similar to the hadīth of Hamzah.

226 – Mahmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to me and said: Muammal ibn Ismāīl narrated to us, from Ath-Thawrī that Abū Hanīfah was mentioned in front of him while he was in Al-Hijr, so he said: “He is not trustworthy nor reliable.” Until he exceeded the tawāf.

227 – Muhammad ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Abbās Al-Bāhilī narrated to me (and said): Al-Asma’īnarrated to us and said: Sufyān Ath-Thawrī said: “There was not born anyone in Kūfah or in this Ummah anyone more harmful for them than Abū Hanīfah.” He said: And Sufyān Ath-Thawrī claimed that Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent two times.

228 – Salamah ibn Shabīb narrated to me and said: Salamah ibn Abdul-Hamīd Al-Himmānī narrated to us and said: “Perhaps I saw Sufyan Ath-Thawri with his face covered coming to the gathering of Abū Hanīfah and sitting in it.” Salamah said: So I mentioned this to Al-Firyābī, so
he said: I heard Sufyān say: “I have never asked Abū Hanīfah about anything. And verily he would
meet me and ask me.” Abū Abdur-Rahmān (i.e. ‘Abdullāh ibn Ahmad) said: Abdul-Hamīd Al-Himmānī Abū Yahyā is a murjī with extreme irjā and a caller (to his innovation). And the Shaykh (Imam Ahmād) used to criticize him.

229 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: Aswad ibn Sālim narrated to me,from a man (who said): I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say when a hadīth was mentioned to him fromAbū Hanīfah, so Sufyān said: “He is not trustworthy nor reliable. He was asked to repent two times.”

230 – Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me and said: Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Yūnus narrated to us and said: Nu’aym ibn Yahyā As-Sa’īdī narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “No one put in Islam what Abū Hanīfah put in Islam, except that this would be the father of all mistakes.”

231 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān narrated to me (and said): ‘Arazah Al-Khurasānī narrated to me (and said): Al-Fadl ibn Mūsā As-Sīnāī narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Allāh –‘azza wa jalla – put an arch of fire upon the grave of Abū Hanīfah.”

232 – Abū Bakr ibn Zanjuwayh narrated to me (and said): Abū Jafar Al-Harrānī narrated to us and said: I heard ‘Īsā ibn Yūnus say: “Perhaps did Abū Hanīfah take my hand when we were in the masjid of Kūfah and he would be friendly and kind, so I would sit down. Then perhaps his gathering would be crowded and he would become inattentive. Then perhaps Sufyān came in and said: ‘O Abū ‘Amr. The boy Abū dhak informed us (that you were here).’” Then he said: “So we would spread, and Sufyān would meet me and say: ‘Do you sit with him?’ So I would say to him: ‘He took my hand and made me sit and he was friendly towards me, so what should I do with him?’ He said: ‘So he became quiet.’”

233 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Attāb Al-A’yan narrated to me (and said): Muhammad ibn ‘Ubayd At-Tanāfisī narrated to us, from Sufyān Ath-Thawrī who said: “Abū Hanīfah was a
Nabatī who woul draw conclusions in the issues based on his own opinion.”

234 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Attab Al-A’yun narrated to me (and said): Al-Firyābī narrated to me and said: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “I never asked Abū Hanīfah about anything. And he verily asked me and I did not ask him.”

235 – Hasan ibn Abū As-Sabbāh Al-Bazzār narrated to me and said: Muammal narrated to me (and said): I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Abū Hanīfah was not trustworthy nor reliable and he was asked to repent two times.”

236 – Muhammad ibn Khalaf Al-Karkhī narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Humayd narrated to me, from Jarīr, from Tha’labah, from Sufyān who said: “No-one was born in Islām more calamitous than Abū Hanīfah.

237 – Sufyān ibn Wakī’ narrated to me (and said): I heard my father say: “When Abū Hanīfahwas mentioned in the gathering of Sufyān then he would say: ‘We seek refuge with Allāh from the evil Nabatī when he becomes like the arabs.’”

238 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān narrated to me and said: I heard Abū ‘Āsim say: “I announced the death of Abū Hanīfah to Sufyān. He didn’t add anything to what I said except that he said: ‘All praise is due to Allāh who made me safe from much of what many of the people have been afflicted with.’”
He said: “So I was surprised by him.”

239 – Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh Al-Mukharrimī narrated to me and said: Nusayr Abū Hāshim – the brother of Māzandar – narrated to me (and said): I heard Al-Mubārak ibn
Sa’īd (say): I heard my brother Sufyān ibn Sa’īd (Ath-Thawrī) say: “Ibn Qahtabah with this sword is not more destroying of the knots of Islām than this with his opinion, i.e. Abū Hanīfah.”

240 – Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahyā ibn Sa’īd Al-Qattān narrated to me and said: Abū Nu’aym narrated to us and said: “We were sitting with Sufyān in Masjid Al-Haram when Abū
Hanīfah came wanting to speak with him. So when Sufyān saw him he said: ‘Let us get up so he doesn’t afflict us with his mistakes.’ So we got up and Sufyān got up. And another time we were sitting with Sufyān in Masjid Al-Haram when Abū Hanīfah came to him and sat down, while we were not aware of him. So when Sufyān saw him he turned around and made his back facing him.”

Mālik Ibn Anas rahimahullāh

241 – Mansūr ibn Abū Muzāhim narrated to me (and said): I heard Mālik ibn Anas mention Abū Hanīfah, and he mentioned him with bad words and said: “He conspired against the religion.” And he said: “Whoever conspires against the religion he is not from the religion.”

242 – Mansūr narrated to me another time and said: I heard Mālik say regarding Abū Hanīfah words which put him out of the religion. And he said: “Abū Hanīfah did not conspire
against anything but the religion.”

243 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me, from Al-Walīd ibn Muslim who said: “Mālik ibn Anas said: ‘Is Abū Hanīfah mentioned in your country?’ I said: Yes. He said: ‘One should not live in your country.’”

244 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: Ismā’īl ibn Abū Uways narrated to us and said: “My uncle Mālik ibn Anas said to me: ‘Abū Hanīfah is from the chronic diseases.’” And Mālik said: “Abū Hanīfah invalidates the Sunan (pl. Sunnah).’”

245 – Al-Hasan ibn As-Sabbāh Al-Bazzār narrated to me (and said): Al-Hunaynī narrated to me, from Mālik ibn Anas who said: “Nobody was born in Islām worse for the people of Islām than Abū Hanīfah.” And he (i.e. Mālik) used to criticize the rai (opinion).

Hammād ibn Zayd

246 – Ibrāhīm ibn Al-Hajjāj An-Nājī narrated to us and said: Hammād ibn Zayd narrated to us and said: “I was sitting with Abū Hanīfah in Makkah when a man came to him and said: ‘I have worn sandals’, or he said: ‘I have worn trousers while I was in ihrām’. Or he said: ‘I have worn khuff (thick socks from leather) while I was in ihrām’ – Ibrāhim (the narrator) doubted (with regards to what the man said). So Abū Hanīfah said: ‘You must offer a sacrifice.’ So I (Hammād) said to the man: ‘Did you find any sandals or did you find a waist cloth?’ He said: ‘No’. So I said: ‘O Abū Hanīfah, this man claims that he could not find.’ He (Abū Hanīfah) said: ‘It doesn’t matter if he could find or not find.’ Hammād said: ‘So I said: ‘Amr ibn Dīnār narrated to us from Jābir ibn Zayd, from Ibn ‘Abbās (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) say: “Trousers for the one who cannot find a waist cloth, and the khuff for the one who cannot find sandals.” And Ayyūb narrated to us, from Nāfi’, from Ibn ‘Umar (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) that the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Trousers for the one who cannot find a waist cloth, and the khuff for the one who cannot find sandals.”’ So he (Abū Hanīfah) said with his hand – and Ibrāhīm ibn Al-Hajjāj (the narrator) moved his hand showing it – i.e. that is nothing. So I said to him: ‘Then who do you narrate from (i.e. what do you base your opinion on)?’ He (Abū Hanīfah) said: ‘From Hammād ibn Ibrāhīm.’ He (Abū Hanīfah) said: ‘He must offer a sacrifice whether he finds or does not find.’ He (Hammād) said: So I got up from him.
Then I met Al-Hajjāj ibn Artaah on the way into the masjid. So I said to him: ‘O Abū Artaah. What do you say regarding a person who is in ihrām and he wore trousers when he could not find a waist cloth, and he wore khuff when he couldn’t find sandals?’ So he said: ‘Amr ibn Dīnār narrated to us from Jābir ibn Zayd, from Ibn ‘Abbās (radiAllāhu ‘anhumā) that the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Trousers for the one who cannot find a waist cloth, and the khuff for the one who cannot find sandals.”’ So I said to him: ‘O Abū Artaah, did you not memorize that he (Ibn ‘Abbās) said: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam)?’ He said: ‘No’. He then said: ‘And Nāfi’ narrated to me, from Ibn ‘Umar (radiAllāhu ‘anhumā) that the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Trousers for the one who cannot find a waist cloth, and the khuff for the one who cannot find sandals.” And he said: ‘And Abū Ishāq narrated to me, from Al-Hārith, from ‘Alī (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) that he said: “Trousers for the one who cannot find a waist cloth, and the khuff for the one who cannot find sandals.”’ So I said: ‘Then what is it with your companion that he says so and so?’ He said: ‘This is in him. And who is he the companion of?
May Allāh make him ugly.’”

250 – Mansūr ibn Muzāhim narrated to me and said: I heard Abū ‘Alī Al-‘Udhrī say: “It was said to Hammād ibn Zayd that Abū Hanīfah had died. So he said: ‘All praise to the One who attacked the inside of the earth with him.’”

251 – Hārūn ibn ‘Abdullāh Abū Yūnus narrated to me and said: Sulaymān ibn Harb narrated to us, from Hammād ibn Zayd who said: “I said with Abū Hanīfah ibn Makkah when he mentioned Sa’īd ibn Jubayr and said he ascribed himself to irjā. So I said to him: ‘And who told you that, O Abū Hanīfah?’ He said: ‘Salīm Al-Aftas.’ So I said to him: ‘Verily Salīm himself believes in the opinion of the Murjiah. Rather Ayyūb narrated to us and said: Sa’īd ibn Jubayr saw me sitting with Talq ibn Habīb. So he said: ‘Did I not see you sitting with Talq? Do not sit with him.’ He said: ‘That was how he (i.e. Sa’īd ibn Jubayr) was.’ He said: So a man called out to him: ‘O Abū Hanīfah, what did Talq believe in?’ So he turned away from him. Then he called him again, but he turned away
from him. But when he kept on calling him he said: ‘Woe to you. He used to believe in justice.’”

252 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me, from Ishāq ibn ‘Īsā At-Tabbā’ who said: I asked Hammād ibn Zayd regarding Abū Hanīfah, so he said: “Verily that man was known for disputing regarding irjā.”

Sharīk ibn ‘Abdullāh and others than him

253 – Mansūr ibn Abū Muzāhim narrated to me and said: I heard Sharīk say: “That there in every area from the areas of Kūfah was a wineshop keeper who would sell wine would be better than there in them is one who says the opinion of Abū Hanīfah.”

255 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ad-Dawraqī narrated to me and said: Haytham ibn Jamīl narrated to us and said: “I said to Sharīk Ibn ‘Abdullāh: ‘Was Abū Hanīfah asked to repent?’ He said: ‘Even the young girls in their veils know this.’”

256 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me (and said): Abū Nu’aym narrated to us and said: “Sharīk would have a very bad opinion about Abū Hanīfah and his companions, and he would say: ‘Their madhhab is to refute the athar from the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam).’”

257 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān narrated to me (and said): Al-Walīd ibn Sālih narrated to me and said: I heard Sharīk say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from his kufr two times. From the words of Jahm and from irjā.”

258 – Hārūn narrated to me (and said): Shādhān narrated to me (and said): I heard Sharīk say: “The companions of Abū Hanīfah are an itch.”

259 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd At-Tabarī narrated to me and said: I heard Mu’ādh ibn Mu’ādh say: I heard Sufyān Ath-Thawrī say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from kufr two times.”

260 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Mus’ab narrated to us and said: I heard Al-Awzā’ī say: “There was not born anybody in Islām more calamitous for them than Abū Hanīfah.” And Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq, from Sufyān Ath-Thawrī and Al-Awzā’ī, the same as Muhammad ibn
Mus’ab said.

261 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Bishr narrated to us and (also) Abū Usāmah. They both said: “A man passes by Raqabah, so he said: ‘From where did you come?’ He said: ‘From Abū Hanīfah.’ He said: ’He makes an opinion easy for you which you did not
chew, and you return to your family without any reliability.’”

262 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Sa’īd ibn ‘Āmir narrated to us, from Salām ibn Abū Mutī’ who said: “We were in the study-circle of Ayyub in Makkah. Then he saw Abū Hanīfah so he said: ‘Let us get up so he doesn’t afflict us with his mistakes.’”

263 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me (and said): I heard ‘Umar ibn Hafs ibn Ghiyāth narrate from his father who said: “I used to sit with Abū Hanīfah and hear him give fatwā in one issue with five different opinions in one day. So when I saw that I left him and turned to hadīth.”

264 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me (and said): ‘Umar narrated to me, from his father who said: ”I saw Abū Hanīfah in a dream so I asked him regarding rai (opinion), so he frowned. So I said: ‘Then who?’ He said: ‘Hudhaifah was adherent to his religion’, and he mentioned ibn Mas’ūd.”

265 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Sālih Mahbūb ibn Mūsā Al-Farrā narrated to us, from Yūsuf ibn Asbāt who said: “Abū Hanīfah said: ‘If the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) met me he would have taken much from what I say.’”

266 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq Al-Fazārī who said: “Abū Hanīfah said: ‘Where do you live?’ I said: ‘Al-Missīsah.’ So he
said: ‘Your brother was better than you’.” He said: And he (i.e. the brother) was killed with the Mubayyidah [The Hāruriyyah (early khawārij) were called Mubayyidah due to their flag in war was white (abyad)].

267 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Salamah At-Tabūdhakī narrated to us (and said): Someone who heard Hammām narrated to me and said: “Abū Hanīfah was asked about the wild pig, so he said: ‘There is no harm in eating it.’”

268 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Salamah narrated to us, from Abū ‘Awānah who said: “Abū Hanīfah was asked about the different drinks. And he was not asked about anything except he said: ‘There is no harm in it.’ And he was asked about that which intoxicates, so he said:
‘Halāl’.”

269 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq Al-Fazārī who said: “I narrated a hadīth from the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) to Abū Hanīfah regarding keeping the sword (from the Muslims), so he said: ‘That hadīth is a myth.’”

270 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: I heard Wakī’ say: “Abū Hanīfah used to say: ‘If a man breaks an instrument he is held responsible.”

271 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’īd narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Salamah ibn Kulthūm, from Al-Awzā’ī, that when Abū Hanīfah died he said: “All praise is due to the One who made him die, because he was verily invalidating the knots of Islām, knot after knot.”

272 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq who said: “Abū Hanīfah was a murjī who would see the sword.”

273 – Ibrāhīm narrated to me and said: Abū Tawbah narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq Al-Fazārī who said: Al-Awzā’ī said: “Verily we do not have anything against the opinion of Abū Hanīfah, because we all have an opinion. But we verily have against him that a hadīth from the Messenger (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) is mentioned to him, and then he gives a fatwā of the opposite of it.”

274 – Abū ‘Aqīl Yahyā ibn Habīb ibn Ismā’īl ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Habīb ibn Abū Thābit narrated to me and said: Ghālib ibn Fāid narrated to us (and said): Sharīk ibn ‘Abdullāh narrated to us and said: “I saw Abū Hanīfah where people were circling around him in the study-
circles of the masjid, where he was asked to repent, or he had been asked to repent.”

275 – Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Hanbal – the son of my uncle – narrated to me and said: Muhammad ibn Humayd narrated to us and said: Abū Tumaylah narrated to us (and said): I heard Abū ‘Ismah when he was asked: “How did Allāh – ‘azza wa jalla – speak with Mūsā directly? So he said: ‘Mushāfahah (in an oral manner).’”

276 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Umar Ad-Dawrī Al-Muqrī narrated to me and said: I heard Abū ‘Ubayd Al-Qāsim ibn Salām say: “I was sitting and with us was Aswad ibn Sālim, then they mentioned an issue, so I said: ‘Verily Abū Hanīfah says regarding it so and so.’ So he (Aswad) turned to me and said: ‘Do you mention Abū Hanīfah in the masjid?’ And he did not speak to me until he died.”

277 – I was informed by Al-Fadl ibn Ja’far ibn Sulaymān Al-Hāshimī – and he is the uncle of Ja’far ibn Abdul-Wāhid – (who said): Abū Ja’far ibn Sulaymān narrated to me and said:
“By Allāh, Abū Hanīfah was kāfir jahmī. He had the opinion of Bishr ibn Mūsā, and Bishr ibn Mūsā had the opinion of the khawārij.”

278 – Abū Al-Hasan Al-‘Attār Muhammad ibn Muhammad narrated to me and said: I heard ‘Abdul-Mālik ibn Al-Fārisī (say): Abū Al-Hasan said: I heard Abū Hazzān say: I heard Al-Awzā’ī say: “Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from kufr two times.”

279 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me, from Ishāq At-Tabbā’ who said: “I asked Sharīk about Abū Hanīfah, so he said: ‘And does two lips meet to mention Abū Hanīfah?’”

280 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me (and said): Hātim ibn Ahnaf narrated to us and said: “I said to Sharīk: ‘How was Abū Hanīfah among you?’ He said: ‘He was corrupt among us.’”

281 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me, from Yahyā ibn Yamān who said: I heard Sharīk say: “Expel whoever is here from the companions of Abū Hanīfah and remember their faces.”

282 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Attāb Al-A’yan narrated to me (and said): Abū Nu’aym narrated to me and said: I heard Sharīk say: “I do not compare the companions of Abū Hanīfah
to anything except those who play tambourines. If a man uncovers his anus in the masjid he doesn’t care about whoever among them sees him.”

283 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me and said: “It was said to Sharīk ibn ‘Abdullāh: ‘From what did you ask Abū Hanīfah to repent?’ He said: ‘From kufr.’”

284 – Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahyā ibn Sa’īd Al-Qattān narrated to me (and said): Yahyā ibn Ādam narrated to us (and said): Sharīk and Hasan ibn Sālih both narrated to us that they witnessed Abū Hanīfah being asked to repent from zandaqah two times.

285 – Ahmad ibn Muhammad narrated to me (and said): Yahyā ibn Ādam narrated to us (and said): Sufyān and Sharīk and Hasan ibn Sālih narrated to us and said: “We have met Abū Hanīfah and he was not known for anything of fiqh. He was only known for disputes.”

286 – I was informed by Al-Asma’ī who said: “By Allāh, Abū Hanīfah was asked to repent from kufr.”

287 – My father – rahimahullāh – narrated to me (and said): Muammal ibn Ismā’īl narrated to us and said: I heard Hammād ibn Salamah when he mentioned Abū Hanīfah, then he said: “Verily Abū Hanīfah met the narrations and the Sunan with his refutation of them with his opinion.”

288 – Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul-‘Azīz ibn Abū Rizmah narrated to me (and said): I heard my say: “We were with Hammād ibn Salamah when they mentioned an issue. Then it was said:
‘Abū Hanīfah says so about it’. So he said: ‘That by Allāh, is the opinion of that māriq (apostate).’”

289 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān narrated to us (and said): Al-Walīd ibn Sālih narrated to me (and said): I heard Hammād ibn Salamah when Abū Hanīfah was mentioned, he said: “That Abū Hanīfah.” He said: And it has reached me that ‘Uthman Al-Battī used to say: “That Abū Hanīfah.”

290 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ad-Dawraqī narrated to me, from Al-Haytham ibn Jamīl who said: I heard Hammād ibn Salamah say regarding Abū Hanīfah: “Allāh will verily throw that one in the fire.”

291 – Abū Ma’mar narrated to me, from Ishāq ibn ‘Īsā who said: “I asked Hammād ibn Salamah regarding Abū Hanīfah, so he said: ‘That Abū Hanīfah. That Abū Hanīfah. Allāh – ‘azza wa jalla – blocked the earth with him.’”

292 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Attāb Al-A’yan narrated to me, from Mansūr ibn Salamah Al-Khuzā’ī who said: “I heard Hammād ibn Salamah curse Abū Hanīfah.” Abū Salamah said: And
Shu’bah (ibn Al-Hajjāj) used to curse Abū Hanīfah.

‘Abdullāh ibn Al-Mubārak rahimahullāh

292 – ‘Abdah ibn ‘Abdur-Rahīm Marwazī Shaykh Sālih narrated to me, from Salamah ibn Sulaymān who said: “Hamzah Al-Bazzār entered upon Ibn Al-Mubārak and said: ‘O Abū ‘Abdur-
Rahman, the insight of Abū Hanīfah in the hadīth and his efforts in worship has reached so much that I don’t know of who would come close to him (in this).’ So Ibn Al-Mubārak said: ‘Regarding what you said that he has insight in hadīth, then he is not befitting for that (i.e. that praise). I verily used to come to him in secret from Sufyān and verily my companions would blame me for coming to him and they said that he came upon the books of Muhammad ibn Ja’far and he narrated them. And
regarding what you said of his efforts in worship then he is nor befitting for that. He verily used to wake up working hard with the masāil and this would be his habit until he maybe would lose the midday nap. And then he would go into the evening still hard working. But the owner of worship
and staying up (for prayer) wakes up and has a time (specific for worship).”

293 – ‘Abdah ibn ‘Abdur-Rahim narrated to me and said: I heard Mu’adh ibn Khalid ibn Shaqiq, the son of the uncle of ‘Ali ibn Al-Hasan ibn Shaqīq, say: “I came back from Hajj so I met Ibn Al-Mubārak in ‘Irāq, so I asked him saying: ‘O Abū ‘Abdur-Rahmān, some of the spending
on Hajj has remained with me, do you see that I should write the opinion of Abū Hanīfah?’ He said: ‘No.’ So I said: ‘How come?’ He said: ‘Because the intellect of the man is not there.’”

295 – ‘Abdah ibn ‘Abdur-Rahīm narrated to me (and said): I heard Abū Al-Wazīr Muhammad ibn A’yun (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) – the caretaker of Ibn Al-Mubārak – say: “A man
from the companions of ‘Abdul-Karīm entered upon Ibn Al-Mubārak while the house was full of people from Ahl Al-Hadīth. So he said: ‘O Abū ‘Abdur-Rahmān my question is so and so.’ So Ibn Al-Mubārak narrated regarding it several ahādīth from the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam)
and his Companions. So the man said: ‘O Abū ‘Abdur-Rahmān, Abū Hanīfah have said the opposite of this.’ So Ibn Al-Mubārak got angry and said: ‘I narrate to you from the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) and his Companions, and you bring me (the opinion of) a man who used to see the sword against the Ummah of Muhammad (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam).’”

296 – Al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: ‘Abdān narrated to us, from Ibn Al-Mubārak who said: “On the face of the earth there is not a gathering which is
more beloved to me, than the gathering of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī. You used to if you wanted to see him
pray you would (be able to) see him pray, and if you wanted to see him remembering Allāh, then you would (be able to) see him (do that), and if you wanted to see him dealing with the difficult of fiqh, then you would (be able to) see him (do that). But a gathering where I don’t know if I ever witnesses him sending blessings upon the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam), then it’s the gathering.” And
he became quite and didn’t mention (any name). So he (‘Abdān) said: That is the gathering of Abū Hanīfah.

299 – ‘Abdullāh ibn Ahmad ibn Shubbawayh narrated to me and said: I heard ‘Abdān say: I heard Sufyān ibn ‘Abdul-Mālik say: I heard ‘Abdullāh ibn Al-Mubārak say regarding an issue to Abū Hanīfah: “Sometimes blocking the road is better than that.”

300 – Abū Al-Hassan ibn Al-’Att ār Muhammad ibn Muhammad narrated to me (and said): I heard Ahmad ibn Shubbawayh say: Abū Sālih Sulaymān ibn Sālih informed us and said:
“It was said to Ibn Al-Mubārak: ‘Do you narrate from Abū Hanīfah?’ So he said: ‘I was tested with it.’”

Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah rahimahullāh

302 – My father – rahimahullāh – narrated to me and said: I heard Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah say: “I know that they asked him to repent more than once (i.e. Abū Hanīfah).” My father said: So Abū Zayd – i.e. Hammād – said: “It was said to Sufyān: ‘Regarding what?’ He said: ‘He said some words, so they said: ‘this is kufr’. So his companions saw that they should ask him to repent, so he
said: ‘I repent’.”

303 – Muhammad ibn ‘Alī Al-Warrāq narrated to me, from Ibrāhīm ibn Bashār (who said): Sufyān narrated to us and said: “I have never seen anyone more daring towards Allāh than Abū Hanīfah. A man came to him from the people of Khurasān and said: ‘I have come to you with hundred-
thousand questions which I wish to ask you about.’ So he said: ‘Come with them.’” So Sufyān said: “So did you ever see anyone more daring towards Allāh than this person?”

304 – Muhammad ibn ‘Alī narrated to me, from Sufyān who said: “I was with Abū Hanīfah one day when a man asked him a question regarding sarf (morphology) and he made a mistake it in.
So I said: ‘O Abū Hanīfah that is a mistake.’ So he got angry and said to the one who asked him: ‘Go and use this (answer) and whatever is in it of sin, then it is on my neck.’”

305 – Muhammad ibn ‘Alī narrated to me, from Ibrāhīm (who said): I heard Sufyān say: “I passed by Abū Hanīfah while he was in the masjid with his companions and their voices were raised. So I said: ‘O Abū Hanīfah, this is the masjid and the voices should not be raised in it.’ So he said:
‘Leave them. They do not understand except by this.’"

306 – Muhammad ibn ‘Alī narrated to me and said: Ibrāhīm ibn Bashār narrated to us and said: I heard Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah say: “Abū Hanīfah used to put forth similitudes to the hadīth
of the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) and then oppose it. It reached him that I narrated a hadīth from the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) where he said: “Both parties in a business transaction have a right to annul it so long as they have not separated.” So Abū Hanīfah said: ‘Then what if they are on a ship, how will they separate?’ So Sufyān said: ‘So did you ever hear anything more evil than this?’”

310 – Muhammad ibn Hārūn Abū Nashīt narrated to me, from Nu’aym ibn Hammād who said: Ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from ‘Amr ibn Dīnār, from Jābir ibn Zayd a hadīth. Sufyān
said: “So when I came to Kūfah they asked me regarding the hadīth. So I said: ‘It is (from) Jabir ibn Zayd.’ So they said: ‘Verily Abū Hanīfah narrated it from ‘Amr, from Jābir ibn ‘Abdullāh.’ So I said: ‘No, it is verily Jābir ibn Zayd.’ So they went to Abū Hanīfah and said: ‘There is a man here who is
knowledgeable about the hadīth of ‘Amr.’ So he said: ‘Don’t pay attention to that. If you want to then make it Jābir ibn ‘Abdullāh and if you want to then make it Jābir ibn Zayd.’”

A group of the scholars rahimahumullāh

325 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ad-Dawraqī narrated to me, from ‘Affān ibn Muslim (who said): Abū ‘Awānah narrated to us and said: “I saw Abū Hanīfah when a man had written some things to him and he began saying: ‘It is cut off, it is cut off’, until he asked him about the one who steals something from a palm tree. So he (Abū Hanīfah) said: ‘It is cut off.’ So I said to the man: ‘Do not write that, that is from the mistakes of knowledge.’ He said to me: ‘And why is that?’ He said: So I said: ‘The Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) said: “The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit or the pith of the palm-tree.” He said: ‘Delete this and write: It is not cut off, it is not cut off.’”

326 – Hārūn ibn Sufyān narrated to me (and said): Aswad ibn Sālim narrated to me and said: “I was with Abū Bakr ibn ‘Ayyāsh in the masjid of Banū Usayd that which follows the Qiblah, when a man asked him regarding an issue. So another man said: ‘Abū Hanīfah said so and so.’ So
Abū Bakr ibn ‘Ayyāsh said: ‘May Allāh make the face of Abū Hanīfah black, and the face of whoever says this (what you have mentioned).’”

333 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me, from Yahyā ibn Ayyūb, from Abū Al-Jahm – and he was trustworthy – who said: “I met both Sufyān Ath-Thawrī and Abū Hanīfah. So I saw that Sufyān was most knowledgeable of what was, and Abū Hanīfah most knowledgeable about
what wasn’t.”

335 – Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me (and said): Aswad ibn Sālim narrated to me and said: “When the athar came we threw the opinon of Abū Hanīfah and his companions in the grass.” Then
Aswad said to me: “It is upon you (to follow the) athar (narration). So stick to it. I met the people of knowledge and they hate the opinion of Abū Hanīfah and the criticize him.”

336 – Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me (and said): Mas’ūd ibn Khalaf narrated to me (and said): Ishāq ibn ‘Īsā narrated to me (and said): Muhammad ibn Jābir narrated to me and said: I
heard Abū Hanīfah say: “’Umar ibn Al-Khattāb made a mistake.” So I took a handful of pebbles and threw them in his face.

337 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me and said: Hammād ibn Abū Hamzah As-Sukkarī narrated to us, from Salamah ibn Sulaymān, from Ibn Al-Mubārak, that a man asked
him regarding an issue. So he narrated a hadīth to him regarding it from the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam). So the man said: ‘Abū Hanīfah says the opposite of this.’ So Ibn Al-Mubārak became very angry and said: “I narrated to you from the Messenger of Allāh (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) and you come to me with the opinion of a man who opposes the hadīth? I will not narrate any hadīth to you today.” And he got up.

339 – Abū Al-Fadl Al-Khurasānī narrated to me (and said): Hammād ibn Abū Hamzah As-Sukkarī narrated to me and said: Sufyān ibn ‘Abdul-Mālik said that Ibn Al-Mubārak said
when an issue of a saying from Abū Hanīfah was mentioned to him, then Ibn Al-Mubārak said: “Cutting off the road is sometimes better than this qiyās.”

342 – Muhammad ibn Hārūn narrated to me, from Abū Salih who said: I heard Yūsuf ibn Asbāt say: “Abū Hanīfah was not born upon the fitrah.” And I heard Yūsuf say: “Abū Hanīfah
opposed (with his opinion) four hundred narrations from the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam).”

343 – Muhammad ibn Abū ‘Umar Ad-Dūrī Al-Muqrī narrated to me (and said): I heard Abū Nu’aym say: “I heard Nu’man ibn Thabit – and that is Abū Hanīfah – say to Abū Yūsuf: ‘O Ya’qūb,
do not narrate anything from me. Because by Allāh, I do not know if I am mistaken or I am correct.”

346 – Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me, from Yahyā ibn Ayyūb, from ‘Alī ibn ‘Āsim who said: “I narrated a hadīth to Abū Hanīfah regarding nikāh or talāq, then he said: ‘This is the verdict of the
shaytān.’” Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me (and said): Yahyā ibn Ma’īn narrated to us and said: “Abū Hanīfah was a murjī and he was from those who invited (towards it) and in hadīth he was
nothing. And his companion Abū Yūsuf there is no harm in him.”

347 – Abū Al-Fadl narrated to me, from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, from ‘Abdul-Wārith ibn Sa’īd who said: from Sa’īd who said: “I was sitting with Abū Hanīfah in Makkah when he mentioned something. So a man said to him: ‘’Umar ibn Al-Khattāb has narrated this and this.’ Abū Hanīfah
said: ‘That is the opinion of the shaytān.’ And another man said to him: ‘Has it not been narrated
from the Messenger of Allāh: “The cupper and the one for whom cupping is done both break their fast.” So he said: ‘This is a rhyme.’ So I got angry and said: I will verily never return to this gathering. And I walked away and left him.”

[Kitab As-Sunnah by Abdullāh bin Ahmad bin Hanbal]

From others books

So be careful do not follow Ahluh Rai People of Analogy and Qiyas

Al-Khalal narrated in his book, "Ahlul Milal wa Riddah mina Al-Jami'", number 839: Al-Abbas bin Ahmad Al-Mustamli an-Najar from Tartous informed us that they asked Abu Abdullah (Imam Ahmad's kunya is "Abu Abdullah") about a Nasrani or Jew who says: "I testify that there's no god except Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, peace be upon him"
Abu Abdullah said: "He became Muslim."
So we said to him: Someone said that among us in Tartous.
So Ibn Shaybawi said regarding this: I see that he became Muslim, and others say: "No, untill he says: I am free of An-Nasraniyah and I've left my ex-religion"
He said: "Subhannallah! The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to a man: Say, "I testify that there's no god except Allah, and that I'm the messenger of Allah." He became Muslim by saying this."
Then he said: "Evey person who looks into the opinion of Abu Hanifa, gets a black heart."

Muhammad bin Saeed:
"I asked Abu Yusuf [student of Abu Hanifa] about Abu Hanifa in the presence of Caliph Musa bin Jarjan. Abu Yusuf replied, 'What concerns you about him? Abu Hanifa died as a Jahmee."
[Tarikh Jarjaan Lishahmi pg 218-219]

Salaf for Abu Hanifa
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قال أبو حنيفة النعمان:
((ﻭااﻟﻘﺮﺁﻥ ﻛَﻼَﻡ اﻟﻠﻪ ﺗَﻌَﺎﻟَﻰ ﻓِﻲ اﻟْﻤَﺼَﺎﺣِﻒ ﻣَﻜْﺘُﻮﺏ ﻭَﻓِﻲ اﻟْﻘُﻠُﻮﺏ ﻣَﺤْﻔُﻮﻅ ﻭﻋَﻠﻰ اﻷﻟﺴﻦ ﻣﻘﺮﻭء ﻭﻋَﻠﻰ اﻟﻨَّﺒِﻲ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ اﻟﺼَّﻼَﺓ ﻭَاﻟﺴَّﻼَﻡ ﻣﻨﺰﻝ ﻭﻟﻔﻈﻨﺎ ﺑِﺎﻟْﻘُﺮْﺁﻥِ ﻣَﺨْﻠُﻮﻕ ﻭﻛﺘﺎﺑﺘﻨﺎ ﻟَﻪُ ﻣﺨﻠﻮﻗﺔ ﻭﻗﺮاءﺗﻨﺎ ﻟَﻪُ ﻣﺨﻠﻮﻗﺔ ﻭَاﻟْﻘُﺮْﺁﻥ ﻏﻴﺮ ﻣَﺨْﻠُﻮﻕ))

Abu Hanifah said: "The Qur'an is the speech of Allah Most High: written in texts, memorized by hearts, recited by tongues, and revealed upon the Prophet (upon him be blessings and peace). Our uttering of the Qur'an is created,"

- (الفقه الأكبر 1/20
Al-Fiqh al-Akbar 1/20)

قال عبدالله بن أحمد: "سألت أبي: ما تقول في رجل؛ قال: التلاوة مخلوقة، وألفاظنا بالقرآن مخلوقة، والقرآن كلام الله ليس بمخلوق؟ قال: هذا كافر، وهو فوق المبتدع، وهذا كلام الجهمية. قلت: ما ترى في مجانبته؟ وهل يسمى مبتدعاً؟ فقال: هذا يجانب، وهو فوق المبتدع، وهذا كلام الجهمية؛ ليس القرآن بمخلوق؛ قالت عائشة: تلا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: {هُوَ الَّذِي أَنزلَ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ مِنْهُ آيَاتٌ مُحْكَمَاتٌ}، والقرآن ليس بمخلوق"اهـ (الإبانة لابن بطة 5/208)

Abdullah bin Ahmad said: "I asked my father: "what do you say of a man who said our recitation and our utterances of the Quran is created but the Quran is the uncreated speech of Allah?" he replied: "That is a Kafir and he surpassed the mubtadi, rather this is the speech of the Jahmiyyah". I said: "What are your views about avoiding him and is he to be called a mubtadi?" So he replied: "He is to be avoided, and he surpasses the mubtadi, rather this is the speech of the jahmiyyah, the Quran is not created; Aisha said the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited: {It is He who has sent down to you, [O Muhammad], the Book; in it are verses [that are] precise}. And the Quran is not created."'
- Al-Ibanah [5/208] of Ibn Battah

وقال في ألسنة :
- ﺳَﻤِﻌْﺖُ ﺃَﺑِﻲَ ﺭَﺣِﻤَﻪُ اﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﻳَﻘُﻮﻝُ: «ﻣَﻦْ ﻗَﺎﻝَ ﻟَﻔْﻈِﻲ ﺑِﺎﻟْﻘُﺮْﺁﻥِ ﻣَﺨْﻠُﻮﻕٌ ﻓَﻬُﻮَ ﺟَﻬْﻤِﻲُّ»،
And he also said in the Sunnah: "I heard my father saying: (Whoever says my utterance of the Quran is created is a Jahmi)."

- ﺳَﻤِﻌْﺖُ ﺃَﺑِﻲَ ﺭَﺣِﻤَﻪُ اﻟﻠَّﻪُ، ﻭَﺳُﺌِﻞَ ﻋَﻦِ اﻟﻠَّﻔْﻈِﻴَّﺔِ، ﻓَﻘَﺎﻝَ: " ﻫُﻢْ ﺟَﻬْﻤِﻴَّﺔٌ ﻭَﻫُﻮَ ﻗَﻮْﻝُ ﺟَﻬْﻢٍ، ﺛُﻢَّ ﻗَﺎﻝَ: ﻻَ ﺗُﺠَﺎﻟِﺴُﻮﻫُﻢْ "،

"I heard my father being asked about the Lafdhiyyah so he replied: "They are Jahmiyyah and this is the saying of Jahm". Then he said: "Do not sit with them.""

What is known of Imam darul Hijrah, Malik bin Anas regarding Abu Hanifah.

قال عبدالله بن أحمد في (السنة ٢٧٨) و (العلل ٣٥٩٤و٤٨٣٣) :
حدثني منصور بن أبي مزاحم، سمعت مالك بن أنس ذكر أبا حنيفة، فذكره بكلام سوءٍ ، وقال : كادَ الدين .
وقال : من كاد الدين ؛ فليس من الدين .

وفي: (الحلية ٣٢٥\٦) و (تاريخ بغداد ٥٥٢\١٥) من طريق عبدالله. وإسناده صحيح

Abdullah bin Ahmad said: Mansur bin Abi Mazahim informed us that he heard Malik bin Anas mention Abu Hanifah with evil and said: "he schemed [against] the Deen" furthermore he said: "Whoever schemes against the Deen; isn't of the Deen"".
- al-Sunnah 278, al-illal 3594, 4833, al-hiliyah 6/325, tarikh baghdad 15/552 through the path of Abdullah and its chain is authentic.
- قال عبدالله (السنة ٢٧٩) :
حدثني منصور بن أبي مزاحم، قال: سمعت مالكًا يقول في أبي حنيفة قولًا يُخرجه مِن الدين ، وقال : ما كادَ أبو حنيفة إلا الدين .

Abdullah said:
"Mansur bin Abi Mazahim informed us that he heard Malik saying regarding abu hanifah, speech that would expel him from the Deen, and he said: "Abu Hanifah didn't scheme [against] except the Deen.""
- al-Sunnah 279

- وقال عبدالله (السنة ٢٨٠) :
حدثني أبو معمر، عن الوليد بن مسلم، قال:
قال مالك بن أنس: أيُذكر أبو حنيفة ببلدكم ؟
قلت: نعم .
قال: ما ينبغي لبلدكم أن يُسكن .

و في: (الضعفاء للعقيلي ٤/٢٨١) و (الكامل في الضعفاء ٧/٦) و (تاريخ بغـداد ١٥/٥٥١) كلهم من طريق عبدالله. وإسناده صحيح

Abdullah said: Abi Muammar informed us > Walid bin Muslim > Malik bin Anas who said: "Is Abu Hanifah mentioned in your country?" I [Walid] said: "yes", he said: "It's unbefitting to live in your country"".

- al-Sunnah 280, al-du'faa lil-uqayli 7/6, tarikh baghdad 15/551 all through the path of Abdullah & their isnads are authentic
- قال عبدالله (السنة ٢٨١) :
حدثني أبو الفضل الخراساني، ثنا إسماعيل بن أبي أويس، قال: قال لي خالي مالك بن أنس :
أبو حنيفة من الدَّاءِ العُضال .
وقال مالك : أبو حنيفة ينقض السُّنن .

وانظر في: (الكامل في الضعفاء لابن عدي ٧\٦) و هو صحيح

Abdullah said:
"Abu Fadl al-Khurusani informed us > Ismail bin Abi Awyas who said my uncle Malik bin Anas told me: "Abu Hanifah is from the incurable diseases" and Malik said: "Abu Hanifah nullifies the Sunnan.""

- Al-Sunnah 281, al-Kamil fi al-dua'faa li-ibn Uday 6/7 & it is authentic

(العضال) : الأمر الشديد الذي لا يقوم له صاحبه .

-
عن أبي مصعب الأصم قال: سُئِلَ مالك عن قول عمر في العراق: بها الداء العضال. قال: الهلكة في الدين ومنهم أبو حنيفة. [المصدر السابق (13/ 421)

Abu Musab al-Asam said Malik was asked about the saying of Umar regarding Iraq: "in it is the uncurable disease" he said: "destroyers of the religion & amongst them Abu Hanifah."" - [Tarikh Baghdad 13/421]

والخبر المشار إليه (أن بالعراق الداء العضال) أخرجه مالك في الموطأ بلاغًا (1792) أن عمر بن الخطاب أراد الخروج إلى العراق فقال له كعب الأحبار: لا تخرج إليها يا أمير المؤمنين، فإن بها تسعة أعشار السحر، وبها فسقة الجن، وبها الداء العضال.

The narration referring to "In Iraq there is an uncurable disease." Malik has transmitted it in al-Muwatta [1792] that he was notified that "Umar bin al-Khattab wanted to leave for Iraq so Ka'ab al-Ahbar said to him: do not leave for it, O Amir of the Mumineen, for verily does it have 9/10 of the sihr, the wicked of the Jin & in it is the uncurable disease." - al-Muwatta [1792]

وذكر أبو الوليد الباجي تفسيره عن مالك في المنتقى شرح الموطأ (7/ 299) من طريق عبدالملك ابن حبيب قال: أخبرني مطرف: أنهم سألوا مالكًا عن تفسير الداء العضال في هذا الحديث، فقال: أبو حنيفة وأصحابه، وذلك أنه ضلل الناس بوجهين: بالإرجاء وبنقض السنن بالرأي!].

Abu al-Walid al-Bajawi mentioned in his tafsir about Malik in al-Muntaqi Sharh al-Muwatta (7/299) via Abdul Malik ibn al-Habib > Mutrif who said that they asked Malik regarding the tafsir of "the uncurable disease" in this hadith so he said: "Abu Hanifah & his companions, and that is because he misguided the people in two aspects
1) al-Irjaa
2) nullifying the Sunnan by speculation ['rayy]"

He is the most contemptuous of those born upon Islam of which he has misguided many & they are prolonged in misguidance by that which he has legislated until the day of judgement.

فهو عندنا أشأم مولود في الإسلام ضل به بشر كثير، وهم متمادون في الضلال بما يشرع إلى يوم القيامة. اهـ

منقول

The truth is Malik b. Anas has takfir upon Abu Hanifa. He said for Abu Hanifa "He has no deen" Narrated by Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Hanbal form Mansur b. Abi Muzahim and he heard that directly from Malik b. Anas. Mansur b. Abi Muzahim was a siqa.

حَدَّثَنِي مَنْصُورُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَاحِمٍ، سَمِعْتُ مَالِكَ بْنَ أَنَسٍ، ذَكَرَ أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ فَذَكَرَهُ بِكَلَامِ سُوءٍ وَقَالَ: " كَادَ الدِّينَ، وَقَالَ: مَنْ كَادَ الدِّينَ فَلَيْسَ مِنَ الدِّينِ "

What pseudosalafis will say now is Harb al Kharmani ghulat because he mentioned Abu hanifa as Head of Bidah together with Bishr al marisi ?

قال العلامة الحافظ الكبير حرب بن اسماعیل الکرماني رحمه الله عن ابي احنیفة و بشر المريسي : هم أئمة الضلال، ورؤوس البدع، وقادة المخالفين .

السنة لحرب بن اسماعيل ص ٦۱ .

Al-'Allāmah al-Hāfidh al-Kabīr Harb bin Ismā'īl al-Kirmānī said about Abī Hanīfah and Bishr al-Marīsī:

"They are Imāms of misguidance, head's of the Bid'ah, and leaders of the opposers"

[As Sunnah of Har bin Ismā'īl, pg. 61]

Abdillah > Abu al-Fadl informed me > Aswad bin Saalim who said: 'If the Athar comes we throw the opinions of Abu Hanifah and his companions in the garbage.' then Aswad said to me: 'Upon you are the narrations so abide by them, I've come to know about the people of knowledges' hatred for the opinions of Abu Hanifah and they shame him.' -

[Al Sunnah]

I heard Bundara say: I heard 'Abdurrahman bin Mahdī say:

"There was no fitnah from heaven to earth causing more harm than Abī Hanīfa"

[Akhbaar ash-Shuyukh wa Akhlāqahahum lil-Imām al-Marwadī]

سَمِعْتُ بُنْدَارًا يَقُولُ : سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ مَهْدِيٍّ يَقُولُ : مَا هَبَطَتْ فِتْنَةٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ أَضَرُّ مِنْ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ .

[أخبار الشيوخ وأخلاقهم للمروذي]

Sufyan Al-Thawri said: i heard Hammad saying: are u not surprised of Abu Hanifa saying the Quran is created, say to him: O kafir O zindeeq.

Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad 241

٢٤١ - حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ الطُّوسِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ [ص: ١٨٥] يُونُسَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ الْمُقْرِئِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ حَمَّادًا، يَقُولُ: " أَلَا تَعْجَبُ مِنْ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ يَقُولُ: الْقُرْآنُ مَخْلُوقٌ، قُلْ لَهُ يَا كَافِرُ يَا زِنْدِيقُ "

السنة لعبد الله بن أحمد

Yahya bin Hamza and Saaïd bin Abdl Al-Aziz said:

"We both heard Abu Hanifa say," If someone worships a mule to get closer to Allah (swt), then I think there is nothing wrong with it. "

(Al-Majruhin by Ibn Hibban 3/73)

Sulayman bin Harb said: Abu Hanifa passed by a drunk guy, so he said to him: O Aba Hanifa, O Murji! So Abu Hanifa said: “you said the truth, it is my fault, I came and called you a believer with perfect faith.
[Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahlu Sunnah - Al-Laalkaie nr:1838 ]

١٨٣٨ - أنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ النَّحْوِيُّ إِجَازَةً قَالَ: نا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّ، قَالَ: نا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، قَالَ: نا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَرَوِيُّ، قَالَ: نا هُدْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ حَرْبٍ، يَقُولُ: " مَرَّ أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ بِسَكْرَانَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ، يَا مُرْجِئُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ: صَدَقْتَ، الذَّنْبُ مِنِّي، جِئْتُ سَمَّيْتُكَ مُؤْمِنًا مُسْتَكْمِلَ الْإِيمَانِ "

Wakie bin Al-Jarrah said: ibn Abi Layla, Al-Hasan bin Salih, Sufyan bin Said Al-Thawri and Shareek bin Abdillah gathered and they asked Abu Hanifa to come, so he came. They asked him: “what do you say about someone who marries his mother, and kills his father and drinks alcohol? He said: “he is a believer (mumin). So Ibn Abi Layla said: I will never accept your testimony. Al-Hasan bin Salih said: it is forbidden for me that I ever look at your face. And Shareek said: if I had any power I would have beheaded you. Al-Thawri said: your statements are haram for me forever.
[ Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahlu Sunnah - Al-Laalkaie nr:1833 ]

١٨٣٣ - ذَكَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ: نا ابْنُ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَنْطَاكِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي طَاهِرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ التَّمِيمِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ النَّسَائِيِّ، عَنْ وَكِيعِ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ، قَالَ: " اجْتَمَعَ ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى، وَالْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، وَسُفْيَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الثَّوْرِيُّ، وَشَرِيكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَى أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ فَجَاءَهُمْ، فَقَالُوا: مَا تَقُولُ فِيمَنْ نَكَحَ أُمَّهُ، وَقَتَلَ أَبَاهُ، وشَرِبَ فِي قَحْفِهِ الْخَمْرَ؟ فَقَالَ: مُؤْمِنٌ. فَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى: لَا أَقْبَلُ لَكَ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا. وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ: وَجْهِي مِنْ وَجْهِكَ حَرَامٌ أَنْ أَنْظُرَ إِلَيْكَ أَبَدًا، وَقَالَ شَرِيكٌ: لَوْ كَانَ لِي مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ لَضَرَبْتُ عُنُقَكَ، قَالَ لَهُ الثَّوْرِيُّ: كَلَامُكَ عَلَيَّ حَرَامٌ أَبَدًا "

Abdul Rahman bin Mahdi said: "There was a wall between Aboo Hanifa and the truth."

Source: Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 561.

Imam Malik said: "Had Aboo Hanifa rebelled against the nation with the sword it would have been less harmful."

Source: Jami'a Bayan Al-Elm. Vol. 3, Pg. # 334.

Aboo Ishaq Al-Taleqani said: "I heard Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak saying: 'Anyone that owns the book of Aboo Hanifa and uses it and spreads the opinions with it, will cause his Hajj to become void and his wife shall no longer remain lawful for him.' Then the slave of ibn Al-Mubarak said: 'I think the one who wrote the book is Satan.' Ibn Al-Mubarak replied: 'The one who wrote the book is worse than Satan.'

Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 556.

A friend of ours told us that Hamdawayh said: "I said to Muhammad bin Maslama:
"Why is the opinion of Al-Nu'man (Abu Hanifa) widespread in all the cities except in Medina? He replied: "the Prophet ﷺ said: "the dajjal will not enter her (ie Medina) nor the plague, and he (Abu Hanifa) is a dajjal amongst the dajjals (Ar: dajajila). "

Al-Duafaa of Al-Bukhari p.132 nr388 chapter letter "ن" about Al-Nu'man bin Thabit Abu Hanifa (kafir billah jahmi).

باب النون ":
388- النعمان بن ثابت أبو حنيفة الكوفي, مات سنة خمسين ومائة,

حدثنا صاحب لنا عن حمدويه قال: قلت لمحمد بن مسلمة: ما لرأي النعمان دخل البلدان كلها إلا المدينة? قال: إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: "لا يدخلها الدجال ولا الطاعون, وهو دجال من الدجاجلة".

الضعفاء للبخاري ص 132

Imam Malik bin Anas said: "The fitna of Aboo Hanifa is more harmful than the fitna of Iblees."

Imam Malik bin Anas said: "No one was born in Islam more harmful than Aboo Hanifa."

Source: Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 545.

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal said: ‘According to me, the opinion of Aboo Hanifa is equal to the faeces of goats.’

Source: Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 569.

Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi:

Source: Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 556.

Abu Ubayd said: I was in the mosque with Al-Aswad bin Salim in Al-Rasafa and we talked about a particular issue. Then I said: Abu Hanifa says this and that about it. Then Al-Aswad said to me: Do you talk about Abu Hanifa in the mosque? Then he never spoke to me until he died.
Tarikh Baghdad

قال أبو عبيد: "كنت جالساً مع الأسود بن سالم في مسجد الجامع بالرصافة، فتذاكروا مسألة، فقلت: إن أبا حنيفة يقول فيها كيت، وكيت. فقال لي الأسود: تذكر أبا حنيفة في المسجد؟ فلم يكلمني حتى مات".
تاريخ بغداد

Ibrahim Al-Harbi said: "The people are doing well as long as they take their knowledge from the great people (scholars)" this means: someone who is young is great if he follows the words of the prophet ‎ﷺ, the sahaba and the tabi'in, and an old person is small if he follows the words of Abu Hanifa and leaves the sunnah.

Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahlu Sunnah - Al-Laalkaie 1/95 nr:103

Yahya bin Ma'een said, "Abu Hanifa was a murji and he called to this and he was nothing in hadith."
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad 402

قال يحيى بن معين: "كان أبو حنيفة مرجئا, وكان من الدعاة, ولم يكن في الحديث بشيء
السنة لبعد الله 402

‌‏Al-Bukhari said about Abu Hanifa: He was a Murji'. They were silent about his opinion and about his hadeeth
(Al-Tarikh Al-Kabir 8/81)

قال البخاري عن أبي حنيفة: كان مرجئا, سكتوا عن رأيه وعن حديثه

(التاريخ الكبير 8/81).

Al-Bukhaari said that Sufyan Al-Thawri said when Abu Haneefah died: "Praise to Allaah, He would invalidate Islam's handles one by one. No-one was born in Islam more hated than him."
(Al-Tarikh Al-Saghir 2/93).

وقال البخاري ان سفيان لما نعي أبو حنيفة قال: الحمد لله, كان ينقض الإسلام عروة, ما ولد في الإسلام أشأم منه.
(التاريخ الصغير 2/93).

Concerning the Quran

"His attributes are eternal, they have not been originated or created, and who says that it is created or originated is a disbeliever in Allah Almighty, and the Quran is the word of Allah the Almighty, it is written in the Quran books (Masahif) and stored in the hearts and it is recited by the tongues of the people and it has been revealed to the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم and our wording of the Quran is created and when we write it it is created and our recitation of it is created, and the Quran is uncreated.

Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar of Abu Hanifa Al-Nu'man p.20

القول في القرآن

وصفاته في الأزل غير محدثة ولا مخلوقة ومن قال إنها مخلوقة أو محدثة او وقف او شك فيهما فهو كافر بالله تعالى واالقرآن كلام الله تعالى في المصاحف مكتوب وفي القلوب محفوظ وعلى الألسن مقروء وعلى النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام منزل ولفظنا بالقرآن مخلوق وكتابتنا له مخلوقةوقراءتنا له مخلوقة والقرآن غير مخلوق

الفقه الأكبر ص 20

Takfir of the individual Jahmi and testifying that he's in the Fire:

Ahmad bin Shadhaan bin Khalid Al-Hamadhaaniy said 'I heard Ahmad bin Hanbal saying: "He who says my wording of Quran is Makhluq (created) is a Jahmi, Mukhalad (forever inhabiting) the Fire." Then he said: "And he's a Mushrik (polytheist) with Allah The most Great!"'
[Al-Maqsad Il-Arshad by Ibn Muflih]

60 - أحمد بن شاذان بن خالد الهمذانى
روى عن إمامنا منها قال سمعت أحمد بن حنبل يقول من قال لقظه بالقرآن مخلوق فهو جهمى مخلد في النار ثم قال وهذا مشرك بالله العظيم
المقصد لابن مفلح ج 1 ص 113

Abu Hanifa the mushrik, the imam of the jahmiyya

Al-Bukhari has mentioned in his book Khalq Af'al Al-bibad:

Ahmad bin Al-Hasan said: Abu Nu'aym told us, he said: Sulayman Al-Qari told us: "I heard Sufyan Al-Thawri say," Hammad bin Abi Sulayman said to me, "Let the mushrik Abu Hanifa know that I have nothing to do with his religion, because he says, "The Quran is created".

قال البخاري (قال أحمد بن الحسن: حدثنا أبو نعيم, قال: حدثنا سليمان القارئ, قال: سمعت سفيان الثوري, يقول: قال لي حماد بن أبي سليمان: أبلغ أبا حنيفة المشرك, أني بريء من دينه, وكان يقول: القرآن مخلوق) خلق أفعال العباد 2

*Also mentioned in Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahlu Sunnah - Al-Laalkaie
nr:39

Awzai said: "No one was born into Islam more harmful than Aboo
Hanifa.
[Kitab al-`Ilal wa Ma'rifat al-Rijal of Ahmad bin Hanbal. Vol. 2, Pg. #
546.]

Hammad said, "I heard Shu'ba cursing Abu Hanifa."

Al-Du'afaa of Al-Uqayli 1876]

Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal said: i heard my father saying: don’t
narrate anything from the companions of Abu Hanifa.
[Dhamm Al-Kalam 460]

Abu Ishaq Al-Fizari said: I told Abu Hanifa a hadith of the prophet
about the prohibition of rebellion with the sword, then he said,
"that's a nonsense hadith."
[Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal 322]

The chapter of the letter "ن"
Al-Nu'man bin Thabit Abu Hanifa Al-Kufi. He died in the year 150 H.
Nu'aym bin Hammad told us that Yahya bin Said and Mu'adh bin
Muadh said: "we heard Sufyan Al-Thawri say:" Abu Hanifa did
istitaba* twice for kufr ".
*repenting
[Al-Du'afa of Al-Bukhari p.132 nr388]

Al-Bukhaari said that Sufyan Al-Thawri when Abu Haneefah died. He
said: Praise be to Allaah. He would invalidate the handles of islam
one by one. There was no one born in Islam more hated than him.
(Al-Tarikh Al-Saghir 2/93).

Al-Bukhari said about Abu Hanifa: He was a Murji'. They were silent
about his opinion and about his hadeeth (Al-Tarikh Al-Kabir 8/81)

Abu Zur'a Al-Razi said: "Abu Hanifa was a jahmi."
Tarikh Baghdad 2/179 en 14/253

Suwayd bin Said told me: Abdullah bin Yazid told us, he said: "Abu
Hanifa has invited me to Al-irjaa."
Al-Sunnah - Abdullah bin Ahmad 408

Aboo Ishaq Al-Taleqani said: "I heard Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
saying: 'Anyone that owns the book of Aboo Hanifa and uses it and
spreads the opinions with it, will cause his Hajj to become void and
his wife shall no longer remain lawful for him.' Then the slave of ibn
Al-Mubarak said: 'I think the one who wrote the book is Satan.' Ibn Al-Mubarak replied: 'The one who wrote the book is worse than
Satan.'
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 556.

Ahmad bin Hanbal rahimahu llah said, who has Kitab Al-Hiyal in his
home and gives Fatawi with it, then he is a disbeliever in what has
been revealed to Muhammad Salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam.
[Tabaqat Al-Hanabila]

Bishr bin Al-Mufaddal said: "I said to Abu Hanifa: Nafi 'said that Ibn
Umar said that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: the buyer and the seller can
both choose what they want as long as they are not separated (ie
they are still in the same place together.) Then Abu Hanifa said: that
is nonsense, then I said: Qatada said that Anas said that a Jew had
crushed the head of a slave girl between two stones so then the
prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم crushed his head between two stones, Abu Hanifa said: gibberish.
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad]

Salama bin Kulthum said: "When Aboo Hanifa died, Awzai said:
'Praise be to Allah for killing him, he used to destroy the pillars of
Islam one by one.'"
[ Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad. Vol. 1, Pg. # 207.]

Abu Hanifa said: if the prophet had met me, or I had met the
prophet, he would have taken many sayings from me, what is religion
except sound opinion?
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah]

Abu Ja’far Al-Tirmidhi said: “I saw the prophet in a dream so i asked: o
rasulallah should we take the opinion of abu hanifa? he said: no.”
Dhamm Al Kalam 377]

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Sarifi told us: "I was with Jaafar ibn
Muhammad, and then Abu Hanifa came.” and Ibn Shubramah said I and Abu Hanifa entered upon Jaafar and he said to Abu Hanifa, fear Allah and do not make analogies in the
religion with your opinion, because the first who used analogy
(qiyaas) was the devil.
[Dhamm Al-Kalaam 2/199]

Ibn Shubruma said, "Abu Hanifa and I arrived at Jaafar As-Saadiq's
house. Jaafar said this to Abu Hanifa: "Fear Allah! Do not rely on the Qiyas in
regards to belief. Because Iblis was the first to practice Qiyas.
Hilyat Al-Awliya (3/197)

Yusuf bin Asbat said: Abu Hanifa rejected 400 ahadith of the prophet
salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, or more.

Ahmad b. Hanbal said
".Even the weak hadith is better than Abu Hanifa's opinion"
(Abdullâh b. Ahmad b. Hanbal, as-Sunnah, 229)

Ishaq bin Mansur Al Kawsaj said: "I said to Ahmad bin Hanbal; Is a
man rewarded for hating Abi Hanifah and his companions?" He said:
"Yes, by Allah!"
(Sunnah by Abdullah bin Ahmad 228)

Said bin Salim said, "I asked Abu Yusuf when he was in Djirdjan about
Abu Hanifa, then he said," What do you need from him while he died
as a #jahmi? "
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad

Harb bin Ismail Al-Karmani reported that Ishaq bin Rahawayh said:
Mu'ammal bin Ismail said that Sufyan Al-Thawri said that Abbad asked Abu Hanifa: O Abu Hanifa a man says "I know that the Ka'ba exists But I do not know if it's in Khorasan or in Mecca, "is that a believer? He said, "Yes." Muammal said: Al-Thawri said: "I testify that he is an disbeliever to Allah, until it is clear to him that the Ka'ba is in the holy mosque."
And he (Abbad) asked Abu Hanifa: A man says, "I know that Muhammad is a prophet and a messenger, but I do not know if it was Mohammed who was in Medina and belonged to the tribe Quraysh or if it is another Mohammad", is that a believer? He said, "Yes, he's a believer." Muammal said: Al-Thawri said, "I testify that he is a disbeliever to Allah.

[Al-Sunnah of Abu Bakr bin Al-Khallal 4/28 number: 1104 and a similar
narration is mentioned in Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahlu Sunnah - Al-Laalkaie nr:1831 and al-ilal wa marifat al-rijaal of Ahmad bin Hanbal 2/546
nr3590]

3689 - Abu Dawood said: A Shaykh from the people of Wasit said to
us: Abu Mansur al-Harith ibn Mansour told us: I heard Sufyan al-Thawri, and he was asked about al-Dadhi. He said: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: people of my Ummah will drink alcohol and call it by another name »Abu Dawood said:" Sufian Al-Thawri said Dadhi is the drink of the sinners."
Sunan Abi Dawud

401 - Narrated by Abu al-Fadl that Yahya bin Ayoub said: Ali bin Asim
said: i told Abu Hanifa a hadith about marriage or divorce, so he said:
«This is the devil's judgment»
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmed

Muhammad bin Jabir said: I heard Abu Hanifa, saying: «" Omar ibn al-
Khattab erred" so i took a handful of gravel and hit him with it in his
face»
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmed 391

385 - Abu al-Fadl told us Al-Hussein bin al-Faraj Khayat told us
Ibrahim bin Abi Suwaid told us, he said: I heard Hammad bin Salamah
saying: «this Abu Hanifa wallahi, I hope that Allah will make him
enter the hell»
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Hanbal

406 - Ishaq ibn Ibrahim told me, Ahmed bin Manee3 told me, and
also more than one person told me this, and one of them is Abu
Osman Said ibn Sabih, he told me Abu Amr Shibani, said: "When
Ismail bin Hammad bin Abu Hanifa was appointed as a judge, I went
until I entered upon him and I said: You say: The Koran is the word of
God and it is created?, he said: This is my religion and my father's
religion. then it was said to him: when did he spoke this before he
created it or after he created it or while he created it?, he said: so he
didnt say a word, I said: Hey you, Fear Allah and think about what you
say, so i jumped on my donkey and left."
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal

Muhammad bin Mansur Al-Jawwar said: '' I saw Al-Humaydi read
aloud from the book "the refutation of Abu Hanifa" in the holy
mosque. And he said: "Some people said: .." so I asked: how is it that
you do not name him by name? He replied: I hate to mention his
name in the holy mosque."
Al-Majruhin of Ibn Hibban 1127]

Yusuf bin Asbat said: the prophet used to let his wifes pull straws
when he wanted to go on a journey, and his companions pulled
straws. But Abu Hanifa said: pulling straws is gambling
Tarikh Baghdad 13/390

Abu Al-Fadl Al-Khorasani told me and Muhammad bin Abi Umar told
us that he heard Sufyan bin Uyayna say: "There is no one born in
Islam that is more harmful to Islam than Abu Hanifa."
Al-Sunnah of Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal 1/217 nr:361

Wakie 'said: Ibn Al-Mubarak asked Abu Hanifa about the lifting of the
hands at the ruku'. Then Abu Hanifa said: will he raise his hands to
fly? Ibn Al-Mubarak was a sensible man, so he said: if he flew during
the first time (when he raised his hands) he flies the second time too.
Then Abu Hanifa was quiet and did not say anything.
Tarikh Baghdad 13/389

Yahya bin Hamza and Said bin Abd Al-Aziz said: we both heard Abu
Hanifa say: "If someone worships a mule to come closer to Allah then
I think there is nothing wrong with that".
Al-Majruhin of Ibn Hibban 3/73

Abdullah bin Amr bin Abi Najih told: Abd Al-Warith said: I was in Mecca and Abu Hanifa was there so I went to him and there were a number of people with him. A man then asked Abu Hanifa something and he gave an answer, then the man said: what about what has been narrated from Omar about this? Then Abu Hanifa said: the
words of a shaytan. Then I praised Allah, and someone said to me:
Are you surprised? Before this, a man came to him and asked about something and he responded. Then he was asked, what about the
hadeeth of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم about that the fasting of the one who does the hijama and the one to whom it is done to, is invalid? Then
he said, "that's bullshit." Then I said to myself: This is a meeting I will
never return to.
Tareekh Baghdad 13/388

Al-Waleed bin Muslim said: Malik bin Anas asked me: "is Abu Hanifa
mentioned in your city? I said: yes. He said: your city should not be
lived in."
Tarikh Baghdad 13/400

"It must be known for every religious person that God would never
send a Prophet for such Salaat (Refering to Salaat of Aboo Hanifa)
and Muhammad wasn’t sent to propagate the people for this
(Salaat)."
Al-Mankhul. Pg. # 501.

"Aboo Hanifa had turned jurisprudence on its head and unsettled its method and changed its system."
Al-Mankhul. Pg. # 500.

Shafi said: "Whoever practiced Istehsan made a new law. Well first of
all it is recomended to explain the reality of Istehsan. Some of Aboo
Hanifa's companions said: 'Istehsan is a method which lacks proof.
Verily it is kufr whoever believed in it or permitted its practise.'"
Al-Mankhul. Pg. # 374 - 375.

"Aboo Hanifa was not a Mujtahid because he acquired no knowledge
in (Arabic) grammar; this is proven by the fact that he read the words
Babu Qays. Aboo Hanifa had no knowledge of Hadeeth, he would
ignore Saheeh Hadeeth and would embrace weak ones, he had no
capacity to interpret the Sharia, on the contrary he would contradict
their rules."
Al-Mankhul. Pg. # 471.

It is not permissible to adhere to him, because he was propagating to
Erja and according to our scholars it is impermissible to adhere to
one that propagates innovations (Bid'ah, I don’t know any
disagreement among the Muslim scholars and the pious religious
(people) in all the countries about dispraising him (Aboo Hanifa),
every one dispraised him one by one.

Kitab Al-Majruhin. Vol. 3, Pg. # 64.

Abdul Rahman bin Mahdi said: "There was a wall between Aboo
Hanifa and the truth."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 561.

Sufyan bin Uyaina said: "Aboo Hanifa repented from Atheism on
three occasions."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 526.

Sulayman bin Hassan Al-Halabi said: "I heard Awzai on several
occasions saying that Aboo Hanifa destroyed the pillars of Islam one
by one."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 547.

Sufyan said: "Aboo Hanifa repented from Kufr twice."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 524 - 525.

Al-Awzaaie said: we dont mind that Abu Hanifa spoke with opinion
but we mind that the hadeeth of the prophet came to him and he
would give fatwa with something else.
Dhamm Al-Kalam of Al-Harawi 3/2-3

Sufyan Al-Thawri said: "No one was born in Islam more unfortunate
on the Muslims other than him."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 548.

Narrated Al-Fazari: "I heard Al-Awzai and Sufyan Al-Thawri saying:
'No one was born in Islam more evil.' and Shafi said: 'More mischief
than Aboo Hanifa.'

Sufyan said: "No one was born in Islam more harmful than Aboo
Hanifa."

Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 15, Pg. # 549.

Imam Shafi said: "I don’t know anyone who wrote a book proving his
errors except Aboo Hanifa."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 8, Pg. # 567 .

Imam Shafi said: "I saw the books of Aboo Hanifa's companions and
they comprised of 130 pages, I found in them 80 pages that
contradicted the Qur'aan and Sunnah."
Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. 7, Pg. # 566.

Al-Shafii said: "I saw the book of Aboo Hanifa and they claim that
they say whatever is in Allah's (swt) book and His Prophet’s tradition,
whilst they actually they go against them."
Tabaqat Al-Shafyyia Al-Kubra. Vol. 2, Pg. # 122.

And for the End

Abu Bakr bin Abi Dawud said:
"Bad talk about Abu Hanifa is an ijmaa among scholars, because the Imam of Al-Basra Ayyub Al-Sikhtiyani has spoken of him and the imam of Al-Kufa Sufyan Al-Thawri's spoke about him and the Imam of Al-Hijaz Malik bin Anas has spoken of him and the Imam of Egypt Al-Layth bin Sa'd has spoken of him and the Imam of Al-Sham Al-Awzaaie has spoken of him and the Imam of Khorasan Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak has spoken about him, so speaking badly about him is an ijmaa in all territories. "
Al-Kaamil of Ibn Adi 8/241

قال أبو بكر بن أبي داود الوقيعة في أبي حنيفة إجماع من العلماء لأن إمام البصرة أيوب السختياني وقد تكلم فيه وإمام الكوفة الثوري وقد تكلم فيه وإمام الحجاز مالك وقد تكلم فيه وإمام مصر الليث بن سعد وقد تكلم فيه وإمام الشام الأوزاعي وقد تكلم فيه وإمام خراسان عبد الله بن المبارك وقد تكلم فيه فالوقيعة فيه إجماع من العلماء في جميع الأفاق

الكامل لابن عدي 8/241

I once heard Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Daud As Sijistaani saying to his companions: "What do you say about a matter about which Malik and his companions, and Ash Shafi'i and his companions, and Al Awza'i and his companions, and Al Hasan bin Saalih and his companions, and Sufyan Ath Thawri and his companions, and Ahmad bin Hanbal and his companions, have all agreed upon??" They said: 'O Aba Bakr there isn't a matter more correct than this!' He then said:
"They, all of them, agreed regarding the misguidance of Abi Hanifah!"

[Tarikh Baghdad 15/516]

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