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Abu Hanifa Quotes

700–760 Iraq

Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān b. Thābit b.

Iraq
Theologians

Also known as: Hanafi, Hanafi school

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Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation.

If you learned the sacred knowledge for the sake of this world, then the knowledge will be never rooted in your heart.

It is unlawful for any person to accept my view without knowing the source from where we got them.

Difficulties are the result of sin. The sinful therefore does not have the right to lament when difficulties befall him.

For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.

When a hadith is authentic, then that is my madhab.

If I ever say something that contradicts the book of Allah and the Prophet(Peace be upon him) then leave my statement.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abu Hanifa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.