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    1) Imam Abu Hanifah's methodology in deriving Islamic rulings prioritized using evidence from the Quran, authentic hadiths, and opinions of the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet). 2) If an issue was not addressed in these primary sources, he would use the opinions of respected early Islamic scholars such as Ibrahim al-Nakha'i and al-Sha'bi and perform his own ijtihad (reasoning). 3) Narrations from Imam Abu Hanifah himself and scholars like Sufyan al-Thawri confirm that he based his rulings primarily on transmitted sources of the Sharia rather than mere analogy.

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    1) Imam Abu Hanifah's methodology in deriving Islamic rulings prioritized using evidence from the Quran, authentic hadiths, and opinions of the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet). 2) If an issue was not addressed in these primary sources, he would use the opinions of respected early Islamic scholars such as Ibrahim al-Nakha'i and al-Sha'bi and perform his own ijtihad (reasoning). 3) Narrations from Imam Abu Hanifah himself and scholars like Sufyan al-Thawri confirm that he based his rulings primarily on transmitted sources of the Sharia rather than mere analogy.

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    1) Imam Abu Hanifah's methodology in deriving Islamic rulings prioritized using evidence from the Quran, authentic hadiths, and opinions of the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet). 2) If an issue was not addressed in these primary sources, he would use the opinions of respected early Islamic scholars such as Ibrahim al-Nakha'i and al-Sha'bi and perform his own ijtihad (reasoning). 3) Narrations from Imam Abu Hanifah himself and scholars like Sufyan al-Thawri confirm that he based his rulings primarily on transmitted sources of the Sharia rather than mere analogy.

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    com One indication to Imam Abu Hanifahs vast knowledge of the sources of the Shariah is his methodology in deriving rulings from the Shariah, since one of his primary sources is the authentic sunnah and the opinions of the Sahabah, as he himself explicitly stated: Hafiz Ibn Abd al-Barr narrates: Abd al-Warith narrated to us: Qasim narrated to us: Ahmad ibn Zuhayr narrated to us: Yahya ibn Main narrated to us: Ubayd ibn Abi Qurrah narrated to us from Yahya ibn Durays, he said: I was present with Sufyan al-Thawri when a man of great knowledge and piety came to him, and he said: O Abu Abd Allah! What do you have against Abu Hanifah? He said: And what does he have? He said: I heard him [i.e. Abu Hanifah] say a statement in which there is balance and proof: Indeed I take [legal opinions] from the Book of Allah when I find it. That which I do not find therein, I take from the Sunnah of Allahs Messenger and the authentic narrations from him which have spread between the hands of trustworthy people from trustworthy people. If I do not find it in the Book of Allah, nor the Sunnah of Allahs Messenger, I take the opinion of his companions, [adopting the opinion of] whoever [of them] I wish, and I leave the opinion of whoever [of them] I wish. Moreover, I do not leave their opinion for anothers opinion. If the [legal] issue reaches [only] to Ibrahim, al-Shabi, alHasan, Ata, Ibn Sirin, Said ibn al-Musayyab and he enumerated [other] men then, [they are] a people who performed ijtihad, so I may perform ijtihad just as they performed ijtihad. Thereupon, Sufyan remained silent for a long period, and then he said some words of which there remained none in the gathering but he wrote them: We hear harshness in speech and we fear it. We hear softness and we desire it. We do not judge the living; nor do we judge the dead. We accept what we hear. And we entrust what we do not know to its knower, and we put our opinion in doubt in favour of their opinion. (Al-Intiqa fi Fadail al-Aimmati l-Thalathat al-Fuqaha, pp. 264-5) This sanad is authentic: Abd al-Warith ibn Sufyan al-Qurtubi (d. 395) is thiqah according to alDhahabi in Siyar Alam al-Nubala (Misbah al-Arib 2:297); al-Qasim ibn Asbagh al-Qurtubi (247 340) was called the great hafiz and the muhaddith of Cordoba by al-Asqalani and is saduq (Lisan al-Mizan (6:367-8); Ahmad ibn Zuhayr ibn Harb (d. 299) is thiqah according to al-Daraqutni and Khatib; Ubayd ibn Abi Qurrah is a shaykh of Ahmad ibn Hanbal and is thiqah according to Yaqub ibn Shaybah and Yahya ibn Main (Tarikh Baghdad 12:386-9); Yahya ibn al-Durays (d. 203) is a narrator of Muslim, and is thiqah according to Ibn Main (Tahrir al-Taqrib 4:89). Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi transmitted the same narration with a different chain leading up to Yahya ibn Main after which the chain is the same, and Dr. Bashshar Awwad Maruf commented on it, This is a report with a sahih isnad, and its narrators are trustworthy and well-known. (Tarikh Baghdad 15:504) Several other narrations with similar wordings from Imam Abu Hanifah about his methodology have been reported in al-Intiqa by Ibn Abd al-Barr (pp. 266-7). These narrations from Imam Abu Hanifah regarding his methodology in deriving laws reveal the baselessness of the allegation that in most of his opinions he relied on analogy and parted from the transmitted sources of the Shariah. In fact, the Quran, well-known sunnah and narrations from the Sahabah were the primary foundations of his madhhab.

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