The Sayings of the Imams Concerning Following the Sunnah and Abandoning Their Sayings when They Oppose the Sunnah—and the Dispraise of Taqleed. Part 1: Abu Hanifah

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The first of the four Imāms was Abu Hanifah an-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit (died 150 AH, Allāh’s mercy be upon him). His students narrated from him numerous sayings with different wordings on this topic, all of them showing the obligation of taking knowledge from the Hadīth, and to abandon the Taqleed or blind-following of the opinions of the Imāms and scholars that oppose the Ahādeeth.

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