Abū Ḥanīfa, al-Nuʿmān b. Thābit (80–150/699–767), renowned Kūfan jurist (faqīh), theologian (mutakallim) and eponymous founder of the Ḥanafiyya, one of the four Sunni schools of jurisprudence. The followers of his school refer to him as al-Imām al-aʿẓam (the greatest imam) and Sirāj al…