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Hammad ibn Abi Hanifa

حماد بن أبي حنيفة

792 CE · 176 AH

Hammad b. Abi Hanifa — the great imam's son, on his father's school; famous for insisting the deposits left at his father's death be weighed and handed to the qadi to clear his father's obligation; his own son Isma'il was qadi of Basra 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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700725750775800825850875 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hafs al-Kabir · Abu Nasr al-Tamar · Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam

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Abu Isma'il Hammad, son of the imam Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man b. Thabit; of his father's madhhab and among the righteous and good in high degree. When his father died he insisted on surrendering the deposits of gold and silver held with him to their owners — the qadi weighed and received them so his father's obligation was acquitted; his son Isma'il was qadi of Basra, removed by the qadi Yahya b. Aktham. 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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