Rereading Abu Hanifa's view on hadith

Abstract

Islamic jurisprudential schools - in particular, Sunni jurisprudential schools - despite their differences in minutiaes, ultimately they have the same in principles of Ijtihad. In fact, as time goes by and away from the first three centuries of Muslim history, known as the age of the compilation of the Islamic heritage, the fluidity and diversity of ideas and the plurality of opinions diminish and gradually fade, and so the origins of the jurisprudential schools come together in a single core package. For example, the inferential basis of what we know today as the Hanafi school and its attitude to the main Sunni hadiths’ books, such as Sahih al-bukhari and Sahih Muslim and other Kutub al-Sittah, as well as the type of relation that this school has with the Hadith , It is not substantially different from other Sunni schools such as the the Shafi'i school or the Hanbali school. But a close examination of ancient and early evidences shows that there are fundamental discrepancies and discontinuities between the approach of Imam Abu Hanifa and the dominant well-established narrative of how to deal with hadith in the Hanafi school and other schools; the rupture that have been silenced over the centuries and ultimately have been denied. Keywords:

Keywords

• abu hanifa
• sentence
• hadith
• sunnah in the positiveness step
• sunnah in the proof step