{
 "meta": {
  "source": "Huzeyfe Çeker, Traditions of Biographies in the Hanafi Doctrine (NEU Press)",
  "built": "2026-10-10",
  "note": "Summaries are this site's own wording. Survival status is as reported in the source."
 },
 "works": [
  {
   "id": "abuhafs",
   "slug": "abu-hafs-al-saghir-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.1",
   "c": 3,
   "sort": 264,
   "author": "Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ṣaghīr",
   "full": "Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥafṣ al-Bukhārī",
   "ar": "أبو حفص الصغير",
   "ah": "264",
   "ce": "878",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Transoxiana",
   "place": "bukhara",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "The earliest work in the genre, by the leading jurist of Bukhara. It is known only through al-Zaranjarī, whose reports almost all pass through Abū Ḥafṣ, and was unknown to writers in Iraq and Egypt.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "abuyahya",
   "slug": "abu-yahya-al-nisaburi-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.2",
   "c": 3,
   "sort": 298,
   "author": "Abū Yaḥyā al-Nīsābūrī",
   "full": "Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥārith al-Bazzār al-Muzakkī",
   "ar": "أبو يحيى النيسابوري",
   "ah": "298",
   "ce": "910",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khurasan",
   "place": "nishapur",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A Ḥanafī shaykh of Nishapur with close ties to the hadith scholars. The work is lost, but al-Makkī quotes it repeatedly, which is the main proof that it existed.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "himmani",
   "slug": "al-himmani-fasl-fi-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.3",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 308,
   "author": "al-Ḥimmānī (Ibn al-Ṣalt)",
   "full": "Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-Ṣalt b. al-Mughallis al-Ḥimmānī",
   "ar": "الحِمّاني (ابن الصلت)",
   "ah": "308",
   "ce": "921",
   "title": "Faṣl fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "فصل في مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "baghdad",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Tırnovalı 919, fols. 89a–91a; Diyarbakır, Ziya Gökalp 119/6; a Cairo copy recorded by Sezgin. Not published on its own, but printed inside an edition of al-Muqaddima al-Ghaznawiyya.",
   "note": "A short text, possibly an abridgement of a longer original. Hadith critics accused its author of fabricating reports, while Ḥanafī biographers trusted him; his reports run through al-Ṣaymarī and al-Makkī.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "tahawi",
   "slug": "al-tahawi-uqud-al-marjan",
   "sec": "2.4",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 321,
   "author": "al-Ṭaḥāwī",
   "full": "Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Salāma al-Ṭaḥāwī al-Azdī",
   "ar": "الطحاوي",
   "ah": "321",
   "ce": "932",
   "title": "ʿUqūd al-Marjān",
   "tar": "عقود المرجان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "Most sources call it simply Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa; the rhymed title appears only in al-Laknawī and is doubtful. Al-Ṣaymarī consulted it and describes it as collecting reports on 'our companions', so it may have covered other Ḥanafīs too.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnkas",
   "slug": "ibn-kas-tuhfat-al-sultan",
   "sec": "2.5",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 324,
   "author": "Ibn Kās",
   "full": "Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Kās al-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī",
   "ar": "ابن كاس",
   "ah": "324",
   "ce": "935",
   "title": "Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān",
   "tar": "تحفة السلطان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "baghdad",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "The leading Ḥanafī of his day in Baghdad and a transmitter trusted by hadith scholars. Early sources do not mention this book and its title looks later, yet al-Ṣāliḥī cites it so often that much of it could be rebuilt from ʿUqūd al-Jumān.",
   "doubt": "Çeker doubts that a work with this title existed."
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnuqda",
   "slug": "ibn-uqda-akhbar-abi-hanifa-wa-musnaduhu",
   "sec": "2.6",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 332,
   "author": "Ibn ʿUqda",
   "full": "Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Hamdānī al-Kūfī",
   "ar": "ابن عقدة",
   "ah": "332",
   "ce": "944",
   "title": "Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Musnaduhu",
   "tar": "أخبار أبي حنيفة ومسنده",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "kufa",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Zaydī (Jārūdī)",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A hadith master from Kufa who belonged to the Jārūdī branch of the Zaydīs and was respected by Sunni and Shīʿī scholars alike. The title is recorded in early Shīʿī bibliographies.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "iaa",
   "slug": "ibn-abi-al-awwam-fadail-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.7",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 335,
   "author": "Ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām",
   "full": "Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Saʿdī",
   "ar": "ابن أبي العوام",
   "ah": "335",
   "ce": "946–7",
   "title": "Faḍāʾil Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "فضائل أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Edited by Laṭīf al-Raḥmān al-Bahrāʾijī, 2010.",
   "note": "The oldest extensive biography of Abū Ḥanīfa to survive: 900 reports with full chains, in three parts (virtues, a musnad, and his students). The grandfather wrote it and his grandson, a judge of Egypt, made the fair copy with a few additions.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sabadhmuni",
   "slug": "al-sabadhmuni-kashf-al-athar",
   "sec": "2.8",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 340,
   "author": "al-Sabadhmūnī",
   "full": "Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥārithī",
   "ar": "السبذموني",
   "ah": "340",
   "ce": "952",
   "title": "Kashf al-Āthār",
   "tar": "كشف الآثار",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Transoxiana",
   "place": "bukhara",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Tashkent, Biruni Institute 3105, 326 fols., copied 649/1251. Çeker could not consult it.",
   "note": "A voluminous biography from Bukhara by a student of Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ṣaghīr, who also compiled a Musnad of Abū Ḥanīfa. Hadith critics called him weak; Ḥanafī writers rejected the charge and used the book.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "shuaybi",
   "slug": "al-shuaybi-fadail-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.9",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 357,
   "author": "al-Shuʿaybī",
   "full": "Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Shuʿayb al-Naysābūrī",
   "ar": "الشعيبي",
   "ah": "357",
   "ce": "968",
   "title": "Faḍāʾil Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "فضائل أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khurasan",
   "place": "nishapur",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "Said to have run to twenty volumes. Everything known about it comes from the history of Nishapur by his student al-Ḥākim, which suggests it disappeared within a few centuries.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "marzubani",
   "slug": "al-marzubani-kitab-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.10",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 384,
   "author": "al-Marzubānī",
   "full": "Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿImrān b. Mūsā al-Marzubānī",
   "ar": "المرزباني",
   "ah": "384",
   "ce": "994",
   "title": "Kitāb Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "كتاب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "baghdad",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A prolific Baghdad man of letters whose house was a meeting place for scholars. The Fihrist gives the book about 500 folios. He taught al-Ṣaymarī, who quotes him often.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "saydalani",
   "slug": "al-saydalani-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.11",
   "c": 4,
   "sort": 388,
   "author": "al-Ṣaydalānī",
   "full": "Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Ibn al-Dakhīl",
   "ar": "الصيدلاني",
   "ah": "388",
   "ce": "998",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Hijaz",
   "place": "mecca",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Not a Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known; quoted in Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr's al-Intiqāʾ and in ʿUqūd al-Jumān.",
   "note": "Written in Mecca by a non-Ḥanafī as a rebuttal of his own teacher al-ʿUqaylī, whose book on weak transmitters criticised Abū Ḥanīfa. Parts can be recovered from later quotations.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "saymari",
   "slug": "al-saymari-akhbar-abi-hanifa-wa-ashabihi",
   "sec": "3.1",
   "c": 5,
   "sort": 436,
   "author": "al-Ṣaymarī",
   "full": "Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaymarī",
   "ar": "الصيمري",
   "ah": "436",
   "ce": "1045",
   "title": "Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi",
   "tar": "أخبار أبي حنيفة وأصحابه",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "baghdad",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Hyderabad 1965 and 1974; Beirut 1976 and 1985.",
   "note": "The first Ḥanafī ṭabaqāt, finished in 404/1014 by the qadi of Karkh. Half is a biography of Abū Ḥanīfa that set the pattern for later manāqib; the rest covers his students and 47 later Ḥanafīs, mostly Iraqi. Every later compilation uses it.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "dinawari",
   "slug": "al-dinawari-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.12",
   "c": 5,
   "sort": 469,
   "author": "al-Dīnawarī",
   "full": "Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr al-Dīnawarī al-Labbān",
   "ar": "الدينوري",
   "ah": "469",
   "ce": "1076",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khurasan",
   "place": "ghazna",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Hadith scholar",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Manisa 1342, fols. 98a–164a, copied from the author's manuscript in 563/1168.",
   "note": "A hadith scholar of Ghazna and a teacher of al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. Twenty-five chapters of reports with full chains, little used by later writers, so it may preserve material found nowhere else. Çeker names it a priority for editing.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "almai",
   "slug": "al-almai-al-khisal-al-hamida",
   "sec": "2.13",
   "c": 5,
   "sort": 475,
   "author": "al-Almaʿī",
   "full": "Abū al-Futūḥ ʿAbd al-Ghāfir b. al-Ḥusayn al-Kāshgharī al-Almaʿī",
   "ar": "الألمعي",
   "ah": "after 474",
   "ce": "after 1081",
   "title": "al-Khiṣāl al-Ḥamīda",
   "tar": "الخصال الحميدة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khurasan",
   "place": "nishapur",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Hacı Selim Ağa 538/4 and Murad Molla 702.",
   "note": "A Shāfiʿī hadith master who settled in Nishapur. He builds a moral portrait of Abū Ḥanīfa around forty praiseworthy traits and calls him al-Imām al-Aʿẓam.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "zaranjari",
   "slug": "al-zaranjari-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.14",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 512,
   "author": "al-Zaranjarī",
   "full": "Abū al-Faḍl Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Zaranjarī",
   "ar": "الزرنجري",
   "ah": "512",
   "ce": "1118",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Transoxiana",
   "place": "bukhara",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Edited by Murat Şimşek and Şaban Kütük, Konya.",
   "note": "Written in Bukhara and soon read in the madrasas of Damascus. Its chains of transmission differ from the Iraqi tradition because nearly all pass through Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ṣaghīr. Al-Makkī drew on letters from him.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "hamadhani",
   "slug": "al-hamadhani-tabaqat-ashab-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "3.2",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 521,
   "author": "al-Hamadhānī",
   "full": "Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hamadhānī",
   "ar": "الهمذاني",
   "ah": "521",
   "ce": "1127",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt Aṣḥāb Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "طبقات أصحاب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Iraq",
   "place": "baghdad",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A Shāfiʿī historian of Baghdad. Al-Qurashī says he saw the book and describes it as large; quotations show it was arranged by generations and used eyewitness reports.",
   "doubt": "It may have been part of a joint work on Ḥanafīs and Shāfiʿīs, or his supplement to al-Shīrāzī."
  },
  {
   "id": "zamakhshari",
   "slug": "al-zamakhshari-shaqaiq-al-numan",
   "sec": "2.15",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 538,
   "author": "al-Zamakhsharī",
   "full": "Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī",
   "ar": "الزمخشري",
   "ah": "538",
   "ce": "1144",
   "title": "Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmān",
   "tar": "شقائق النعمان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khwarazm",
   "place": "khwarazm",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "By the famous Qurʾān commentator. The only trace of its content is a poem that Ibn Duqmāq probably took from it. He taught al-Makkī.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "zahir",
   "slug": "zahir-al-din-al-marghinani-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.16",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 550,
   "author": "Ẓahīr al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī",
   "full": "Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Marghīnānī",
   "ar": "ظهير الدين المرغيناني",
   "ah": "6th century",
   "ce": "12th century",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Transoxiana",
   "place": "bukhara",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "Father and son bore the same name; Çeker argues for the son, a teacher of Qāḍīkhān who lived in Bukhara and sent al-Makkī letters with reports on Abū Ḥanīfa. The first mention of the book comes five centuries later.",
   "doubt": "Çeker suspects the book never existed and that a 'letter' was misread as a 'book'."
  },
  {
   "id": "bayhaqi",
   "slug": "al-bayhaqi-al-mawahib-al-sharifa",
   "sec": "2.17",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 565,
   "author": "al-Bayhaqī (Ibn Funduq)",
   "full": "Abū al-Ḥasan Ẓahīr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Zayd al-Bayhaqī",
   "ar": "البيهقي (ابن فندق)",
   "ah": "565",
   "ce": "1169",
   "title": "al-Mawāhib al-Sharīfa",
   "tar": "المواهب الشريفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khurasan",
   "place": "bayhaq",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "Arabic original lost. A Persian translation of 839/1436 by al-Ahlī al-Shīrāzī survives in the National Library of Iran.",
   "note": "By the historian of Bayhaq, written in 556/1161: an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion on following Abū Ḥanīfa's school.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "makki",
   "slug": "al-makki-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.18",
   "c": 6,
   "sort": 568,
   "author": "al-Makkī",
   "full": "Abū al-Muʾayyad al-Muwaffaq b. Aḥmad al-Makkī al-Khwārazmī",
   "ar": "الموفق المكي",
   "ah": "568",
   "ce": "1172",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Khwarazm",
   "place": "khwarazm",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Printed several times with al-Bazzāzī (e.g. Beirut 1981), but the edition lacks the beginning and the last chapters. An abridgement by al-Kirmānī (d. 833) is in Süleymaniye, Hekimoğlu 806.",
   "note": "The 'preacher of Khwarazm' and a student of al-Zamakhsharī. Forty chapters, the largest manāqib to survive: he compares oral reports with earlier books, uses letters from scholars in nearby cities, and ends each chapter with his own verse.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnnaqib",
   "slug": "ibn-al-naqib-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.19",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 701,
   "author": "Ibn al-Naqīb",
   "full": "Niẓām al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, known as Ibn al-Naqīb",
   "ar": "ابن النقيب",
   "ah": "before 745",
   "ce": "before 1344",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "Possibly from Rayy",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī (inferred)",
   "lang": "Persian",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Bursa, İnebey, Haraçcıoğlu 1046, fols. 54b–104a, copied 745/1344.",
   "note": "The first manāqib of Abū Ḥanīfa in Persian, in seventeen chapters. The author had written on al-Shāfiʿī first and added this so as not to seem partisan.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "masud",
   "slug": "masud-b-shayba-tabaqat-al-ashab",
   "sec": "3.3",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 702,
   "author": "Masʿūd b. Shayba",
   "full": "ʿImād al-Dīn Masʿūd b. Shayba b. al-Ḥusayn al-Sindī",
   "ar": "مسعود بن شيبة",
   "ah": "before early 8th c.",
   "ce": "before c. 1320",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Aṣḥāb",
   "tar": "طبقات الأصحاب",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "Unknown",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A fiercely loyal Ḥanafī, criticised for what he wrote about the other imams. He refers to this work in his al-Taʿlīm, which is the best proof it existed.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "qutb",
   "slug": "qutb-al-din-al-halabi-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.4",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 735,
   "author": "Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī",
   "full": "Quṭb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Nūr b. Munīr al-Ḥalabī",
   "ar": "قطب الدين الحلبي",
   "ah": "735",
   "ce": "1335",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "An Aleppo-born hadith master who taught in Cairo. He urged his student al-Qurashī to write al-Jawāhir and shared his notes.",
   "doubt": "Known from a single quotation; al-Qurashī never mentions it. It may have been unfinished notes."
  },
  {
   "id": "arzinjani",
   "slug": "al-arzinjani-nuzhat-al-abrar",
   "sec": "2.20",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 743,
   "author": "al-Arzinjānī",
   "full": "Wajīh al-Dīn ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Arzinjānī",
   "ar": "الأرزنجاني",
   "ah": "743",
   "ce": "1342–3",
   "title": "Nuzhat al-Abrār",
   "tar": "نزهة الأبرار",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "From Erzincan; probably studied in Baghdad",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Ayasofya 1938 (fols. 82b–176b), Ayasofya 3449 and Harput 80. An autograph is dated Rajab 725.",
   "note": "Finished in 725/1325. Covers Abū Ḥanīfa, his students and later Ḥanafīs, following al-Ṣaymarī closely in its headings and content.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "dhahabi",
   "slug": "al-dhahabi-manaqib-al-imam-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.21",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 748,
   "author": "al-Dhahabī",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān al-Dhahabī",
   "ar": "الذهبي",
   "ah": "748",
   "ce": "1348",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Printed with his booklets on Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan.",
   "note": "A booklet by the great Damascene historian, the first sign of scholars of other schools writing on Abū Ḥanīfa. It follows Ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām closely and weighs doubtful reports against others.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "tarsusi",
   "slug": "al-tarsusi-wafayat-al-ayan",
   "sec": "3.5",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 758,
   "author": "al-Ṭarsūsī",
   "full": "Najm al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Ṭarsūsī",
   "ar": "الطرسوسي",
   "ah": "758",
   "ce": "1357",
   "title": "Wafayāt al-Aʿyān",
   "tar": "وفيات الأعيان",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic (verse)",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Damascus, Ẓāhiriyya 9625; Köprülü, Mehmed Âsım Bey 84/3. Published with a Turkish translation by İsmail Şık.",
   "note": "A four-and-a-half-folio poem by the Ḥanafī chief judge of Damascus giving the death dates of about 124 Ḥanafīs, each encoded in letters written in red, as an aid to memory.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "muhandis",
   "slug": "ibn-al-muhandis-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.6",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 769,
   "author": "Ibn al-Muhandis",
   "full": "Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāliḥī",
   "ar": "ابن المهندس",
   "ah": "769",
   "ce": "1367",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "aleppo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "A hadith scholar who settled in Aleppo. Ibn Ḥajar says he travelled widely to compile a large history of Ḥanafī jurists. It appeared alongside al-Jawāhir and was never quoted afterwards.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "bustan",
   "slug": "al-qurashi-al-bustan",
   "sec": "2.22",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 775,
   "author": "al-Qurashī",
   "full": "Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr Allāh al-Qurashī, Ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ",
   "ar": "القرشي",
   "ah": "775",
   "ce": "1373",
   "title": "al-Bustān",
   "tar": "البستان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "Lost; a summary stands in the introduction to al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya.",
   "note": "Full title al-Bustān fī Manāqib Imāminā al-Nuʿmān. The author calls it a large book. His own summary is all that remains.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "jawahir",
   "slug": "al-qurashi-al-jawahir-al-mudiyya",
   "sec": "3.7",
   "c": 8,
   "sort": 775.1,
   "author": "al-Qurashī",
   "full": "Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr Allāh al-Qurashī, Ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ",
   "ar": "القرشي",
   "ah": "775",
   "ce": "1373",
   "title": "al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya",
   "tar": "الجواهر المضية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Hyderabad 1332/1914; critical edition by ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Ḥulw.",
   "note": "The foundation of the later tradition: 2,115 entries in alphabetical order from 168 sources, the first attempt to gather Ḥanafī scholars down to the author's own day. Almost every later compilation abridges, reorders or continues it.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "duqmaq",
   "slug": "ibn-duqmaq-nazm-al-juman",
   "sec": "3.8",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 809,
   "author": "Ibn Duqmāq",
   "full": "Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Aydamir al-ʿAlāʾī",
   "ar": "ابن دقماق",
   "ah": "809",
   "ce": "1407",
   "title": "Naẓm al-Jumān",
   "tar": "نظم الجمان",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Vol. 1: Süleymaniye, Turhan Valide 251 and Atıf Efendi 1942. Vol. 2: Topkapı, III. Ahmed 2832 and Süleymaniye, Serez 1827. Other copies in Berlin, Munich and Paris.",
   "note": "By the 'historian of Egypt', in three volumes and eight generations, one per century. Çeker finds most entries copied word for word from al-Jawāhir and the life of Abū Ḥanīfa from al-Ṣaymarī, usually without credit. A remark on al-Shāfiʿī earned him a beating and prison.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "firuzabadi",
   "slug": "al-firuzabadi-al-mirqat-al-wafiyya",
   "sec": "3.9",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 817,
   "author": "al-Fīrūzābādī",
   "full": "Majd al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Fīrūzābādī",
   "ar": "الفيروزآبادي",
   "ah": "817",
   "ce": "1415",
   "title": "al-Mirqāt al-Wafiyya",
   "tar": "المرقاة الوفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "Travelled from Shiraz to Yemen; died in Zabid",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Reisülküttab 671/1 and 672; Afyon, Gedik Ahmed Paşa 17186; Ankara, National Library 50 Gül-Kara 149.",
   "note": "By the author of the Qāmūs. An abridgement of al-Jawāhir with a few new entries. Unusually, it denies that Abū Ḥanīfa met any Companion.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "bazzazi",
   "slug": "al-bazzazi-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.23",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 827,
   "author": "al-Bazzāzī",
   "full": "Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Shihāb al-Kardarī, Ibn al-Bazzāz",
   "ar": "البزازي",
   "ah": "827",
   "ce": "1424",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "From Khwarazm; lived in Saray, Crimea and Anatolia; died in Mecca",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Printed several times with al-Makkī (e.g. Beirut 1981). Two Turkish translations and an abridgement exist.",
   "note": "Widely read and twice translated into Turkish, once for Murad II. It leans heavily on al-Makkī, including his poems, and wanders into long digressions.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnmusafir",
   "slug": "ibn-musafir-fadail-al-imam-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.24",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 830,
   "author": "Ibn Musāfir",
   "full": "Ibn Musāfir al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanafī",
   "ar": "ابن مسافر",
   "ah": "9th century",
   "ce": "15th century",
   "title": "Faḍāʾil al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "فضائل الإمام أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "jerusalem",
   "pnote": "Placed from his nisba",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "Known only from Ismāʿīl Pasha, who saw the autograph, a large volume finished in 830/1427.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "jazari",
   "slug": "ibn-al-jazari-al-darajat-al-aliyya",
   "sec": "3.10",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 833,
   "author": "Ibn al-Jazarī",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn al-Jazarī",
   "ar": "ابن الجزري",
   "ah": "833",
   "ce": "1429",
   "title": "al-Darajāt al-ʿAliyya",
   "tar": "الدرجات العلية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "Raised in Damascus; the work was begun in Shiraz",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Topkapı, III. Ahmed 2831, 51 fols., the only copy; it breaks off in the letter tāʾ.",
   "note": "The master of Qurʾān readings began reworking a draft of al-Jawāhir for Ulugh Beg, removing non-Ḥanafīs and adding missing and later scholars. He never finished it.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "iqs",
   "slug": "ibn-qadi-shuhba-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.11",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 851,
   "author": "Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba",
   "full": "Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad al-Asadī",
   "ar": "ابن قاضي شهبة",
   "ah": "851",
   "ce": "1448",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "The Damascene author of the well-known Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya also compiled one for the Ḥanafīs.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ayni",
   "slug": "al-ayni-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.12",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 855,
   "author": "al-ʿAynī",
   "full": "Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-ʿAynī",
   "ar": "العيني",
   "ah": "855",
   "ce": "1451",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "By the Ḥanafī chief judge of Cairo, a leading defender of the school.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "dawalibi",
   "slug": "ibn-al-dawalibi-manaqib-al-imam-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.25",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 862,
   "author": "Ibn al-Dawālībī",
   "full": "ʿAfīf al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Baghdādī al-Ṣāliḥī",
   "ar": "ابن الدواليبي",
   "ah": "862",
   "ce": "1458",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanbalī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Damascus, Ẓāhiriyya 1076, three folios in the author's hand.",
   "note": "A short piece by a Baghdad-born historian and preacher from a Ḥanbalī family who settled in Damascus. Çeker could not reach the manuscript.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "iqmanaqib",
   "slug": "ibn-qutlubugha-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.26",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 879,
   "author": "Ibn Quṭlūbughā",
   "full": "Zayn al-Dīn Qāsim b. Quṭlūbughā al-Sūdūnī",
   "ar": "ابن قطلوبغا",
   "ah": "879",
   "ce": "1474",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Hacı Ahmed Paşa 244, fols. 33a–107b.",
   "note": "Built from written sources without chains of transmission, ending with Abū Yūsuf, Muḥammad and Zufar. It quotes a Ṭabaqāt by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, the only evidence for that work.",
   "doubt": "The attribution rests on one manuscript; the title is missing from the lists of his works."
  },
  {
   "id": "taj",
   "slug": "ibn-qutlubugha-taj-al-tarajim",
   "sec": "3.13",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 879.1,
   "author": "Ibn Quṭlūbughā",
   "full": "Zayn al-Dīn Qāsim b. Quṭlūbughā al-Sūdūnī",
   "ar": "ابن قطلوبغا",
   "ah": "879",
   "ce": "1474",
   "title": "Tāj al-Tarājim",
   "tar": "تاج التراجم",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Leipzig 1862; Baghdad 1962; edited by M. Khayr Ramaḍān Yūsuf, Damascus 1992.",
   "note": "About 350 entries, limited to Ḥanafīs who wrote books, so it is especially good on titles. Unlike most compilations it is built on al-Maqrīzī's al-Tadhkira, not on al-Jawāhir.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnaja",
   "slug": "ibn-aja-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.14",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 881,
   "author": "Ibn Ājā",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Khalīl al-Qūnawī al-Ḥalabī",
   "ar": "ابن أجا",
   "ah": "881",
   "ce": "1476",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "aleppo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "An Aleppo jurist of Konya descent who served as an envoy. The work is said to have filled three volumes.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "shihna",
   "slug": "ibn-al-shihna-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.15",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 890,
   "author": "Ibn al-Shiḥna",
   "full": "Muḥibb al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn al-Shiḥna",
   "ar": "ابن الشحنة",
   "ah": "890",
   "ce": "1485",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "aleppo",
   "pnote": "Also Cairo, where he died",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known. His marginal notes on al-Jawāhir survive in Süleymaniye, Kılıç Ali Paşa 739.",
   "note": "Chief judge in Aleppo and Cairo. Ibn Ṭūlūn knew only at second hand that the autograph ran to five volumes.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sakhawi",
   "slug": "al-sakhawi-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.16",
   "c": 9,
   "sort": 902,
   "author": "al-Sakhāwī",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī",
   "ar": "السخاوي",
   "ah": "902",
   "ce": "1497",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Aleppo, Aḥmadiyya 546, about 182 fols.; photographs at Umm al-Qurā and the Islamic University of Medina.",
   "note": "A selection of the 9th-century Ḥanafīs from his own al-Ḍawʾ al-Lāmiʿ, word for word. He studied with four of the compilers on this list.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ibnmibrad",
   "slug": "ibn-al-mibrad-tanwir-al-sahifa",
   "sec": "2.27",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 909,
   "author": "Ibn al-Mibrad",
   "full": "Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Hādī",
   "ar": "ابن المبرد",
   "ah": "909",
   "ce": "1503",
   "title": "Tanwīr al-Ṣaḥīfa",
   "tar": "تنوير الصحيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanbalī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known; quoted as late as Ibn ʿĀbidīn and al-Laknawī.",
   "note": "A Ḥanbalī of Damascus who wrote a manāqib for each of the four imams. Described as a large volume and still in circulation in the 13th/19th century.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "suyuti",
   "slug": "al-suyuti-tabyid-al-sahifa",
   "sec": "2.28",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 911,
   "author": "al-Suyūṭī",
   "full": "Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī",
   "ar": "السيوطي",
   "ah": "911",
   "ce": "1505",
   "title": "Tabyīḍ al-Ṣaḥīfa",
   "tar": "تبييض الصحيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Printed many times since 1317/1899.",
   "note": "Opens a line of Shāfiʿī biographies of Abū Ḥanīfa written against partisanship. He drops the reports that name Abū Ḥanīfa in the Prophet's mouth as forged and argues from the 'man from Persia' hadith. Lists 74 teachers and 96 students.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "kemal",
   "slug": "kemalpasazade-tarajim-bad-al-ahnaf",
   "sec": "3.17",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 940,
   "author": "Kemālpaşazāde",
   "full": "Aḥmad b. Sulaymān Ibn Kamāl Pāshā",
   "ar": "كمال باشا زاده",
   "ah": "940",
   "ce": "1534",
   "title": "Tarājim baʿḍ al-Aḥnāf",
   "tar": "تراجم بعض الأحناف",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Seven copies under different titles, among them Süleymaniye, Ayasofya 4820, Laleli 3680 and Şehid Ali Paşa 1939, and Mecca, Ḥaram 2780.",
   "note": "The first Ḥanafī compilation from Ottoman lands, by the Shaykh al-Islām: about fifty well-known jurists down to the 8th/14th century. It is a different work from his famous treatise on the seven ranks of jurists.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "salihi",
   "slug": "al-salihi-uqud-al-juman",
   "sec": "2.29",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 942,
   "author": "al-Ṣāliḥī",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Ṣāliḥī al-Shāmī",
   "ar": "الصالحي",
   "ah": "942",
   "ce": "1536",
   "title": "ʿUqūd al-Jumān",
   "tar": "عقود الجمان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Edited by Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Afghānī, 1974; a revised edition appeared in 2017.",
   "note": "Written in 939/1532 in answer to a book that slandered Abū Ḥanīfa. Twenty-six chapters drawing on almost every earlier manāqib, which makes it the best witness to several lost ones. Al-Suyūṭī was his teacher.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "tulun",
   "slug": "ibn-tulun-al-ghuraf-al-aliyya",
   "sec": "3.18",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 953,
   "author": "Ibn Ṭūlūn",
   "full": "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Ibn Ṭūlūn al-Ṣāliḥī",
   "ar": "ابن طولون",
   "ah": "953",
   "ce": "1546",
   "title": "al-Ghuraf al-ʿAliyya",
   "tar": "الغرف العلية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Syria",
   "place": "damascus",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Şehid Ali Paşa 1924, 368 fols., copied from the author's draft; other copies in Egypt, Britain, India and Kuwait.",
   "note": "A supplement to al-Jawāhir covering about a century and a half, rich in first-hand material such as the subjects' own notes, letters and fatwas. Çeker puts it first among works that need editing.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "halabi",
   "slug": "ibrahim-al-halabi-mukhtasar-al-jawahir-al-mudiyya",
   "sec": "3.19",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 956,
   "author": "Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī",
   "full": "Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī",
   "ar": "إبراهيم الحلبي",
   "ah": "956",
   "ce": "1549",
   "title": "Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya",
   "tar": "مختصر الجواهر المضية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Şehid Ali Paşa 1941/1 and Esad Efendi 3699/49; Kayseri, Râşid Efendi 886.",
   "note": "The author of Multaqā al-Abḥur abridges al-Jawāhir, keeping jurists who wrote or are cited in the law books and ordering them by the name each is best known by.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "haytamimanaqib",
   "slug": "ibn-hajar-al-haytami-manaqib-abi-hanifa",
   "sec": "2.30",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 974,
   "author": "Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī",
   "full": "Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī",
   "ar": "ابن حجر الهيتمي",
   "ah": "974",
   "ce": "1567",
   "title": "Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa",
   "tar": "مناقب أبي حنيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Hijaz",
   "place": "mecca",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Süleymaniye, Laleli 2347, fols. 53b–73a; Nuruosmaniye 1290, fols. 36b–53a.",
   "note": "His first biography of Abū Ḥanīfa, written in Mecca in 955/1548 for a visitor from Istanbul. He lost his own copy and thought the work gone; Çeker identifies it in two Istanbul manuscripts. Untitled by the author.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "khayrat",
   "slug": "ibn-hajar-al-haytami-al-khayrat-al-hisan",
   "sec": "2.31",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 974.1,
   "author": "Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī",
   "full": "Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī",
   "ar": "ابن حجر الهيتمي",
   "ah": "974",
   "ce": "1567",
   "title": "al-Khayrāt al-Ḥisān",
   "tar": "الخيرات الحسان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Hijaz",
   "place": "mecca",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Shāfiʿī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "First printed in Egypt, 1324/1906; no critical edition. A loose Turkish translation was printed in 1310/1892–3.",
   "note": "One of the best-known biographies of Abū Ḥanīfa: an abridgement of ʿUqūd al-Jumān in forty chapters with additions of his own. Very popular in Ottoman lands.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "qurtubi",
   "slug": "al-qurtubi-qalaid-uqud-al-durar",
   "sec": "2.32",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 975,
   "author": "al-Qurṭubī",
   "full": "Abū al-Qāsim Sharaf al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm al-Qurṭubī al-Yamanī",
   "ar": "القرطبي",
   "ah": "after 974",
   "ce": "after 1566",
   "title": "Qalāʾid ʿUqūd al-Durar",
   "tar": "قلائد عقود الدرر",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Yemen",
   "place": "zabid",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Edited by Khālid al-Aʿẓamī, Baghdad 2001. A Turkish translation is in Süleymaniye, Hacı Mahmud Efendi 4685.",
   "note": "The only Ḥanafī biographical work from Yemen, written in Zabid in 974/1566. A first version was made without access to earlier manāqib; the second added al-Ṣaymarī and al-Jawāhir. Includes the text of al-Fiqh al-Akbar.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "kinali",
   "slug": "kinalizade-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.20",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 979,
   "author": "Kınalızāde",
   "full": "ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Amr Allāh, Ibn al-Ḥinnāʾī",
   "ar": "قنالي زاده",
   "ah": "979",
   "ce": "1572",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "edirne",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Mosul 1954 and 1961, under Taşköprizāde's name; edited by Muḥyī Hilāl al-Sarḥān, Baghdad 2005, 3 vols.",
   "note": "A short handbook in twenty-one generations ending with Kemālpaşazāde, most useful for placing a jurist in his generation. Finished in Muḥarram 966 (late 1558).",
   "doubt": "Authorship is disputed. Manuscripts name six authors; the realistic candidates are Kınalızāde and Taşköprizāde (d. 968/1561)."
  },
  {
   "id": "rayhan",
   "slug": "al-rayhan",
   "sec": "2.34",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 985,
   "author": "Unknown author",
   "full": "Anonymous, 10th/16th century",
   "ar": "مجهول",
   "ah": "before 985",
   "ce": "before 1577",
   "title": "al-Rayḥān",
   "tar": "الريحان",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "Unknown",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Topkapı, III. Ahmed 2668, 53 fols., dated 985/1577.",
   "note": "Full title al-Rayḥān li-Manāqib al-Nuʿmān. A devoted and uncritical Ḥanafī writing without chains of transmission; the latest authority cited is al-Haytamī.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "abusaid",
   "slug": "shaykh-abu-said-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.33",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 986,
   "author": "Shaykh Abū Saʿīd",
   "full": "Possibly Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣunʿ Allāh al-Kūzakunānī (d. 980/1572)",
   "ar": "الشيخ أبو سعيد",
   "ah": "unknown",
   "ce": "unknown",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Not placed",
   "place": null,
   "pnote": "Unknown; Istanbul if the identification holds",
   "school": "Not stated",
   "lang": "Persian",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "Known only from Kâtip Çelebi, who quotes its opening line in Persian. The author cannot be identified with certainty.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "kafawi",
   "slug": "al-kafawi-kataib-alam-al-akhyar",
   "sec": "3.21",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 990,
   "author": "al-Kafawī",
   "full": "Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān al-Kafawī",
   "ar": "الكفوي",
   "ah": "990",
   "ce": "1582",
   "title": "Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār",
   "tar": "كتائب أعلام الأخيار",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Edited by Saffet Köse, Murat Şimşek, Hasan Özer, Huzeyfe Çeker and Güneş Öztürk, Istanbul 2017, 4 vols. Many manuscripts; an anonymous abridgement is in Beyazıt, Veliyyüddin 1606.",
   "note": "The most original compilation after al-Jawāhir: about 700 Ḥanafīs in twenty-two 'squadrons', finished in 987/1579. It tracks who studied with whom back to Abū Ḥanīfa and records each jurist's distinctive legal opinions from the fatwa literature.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nahrawali",
   "slug": "al-nahrawali-tabaqat-al-hanafiyya",
   "sec": "3.22",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 990.1,
   "author": "al-Nahrawālī",
   "full": "Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nahrawālī al-Makkī",
   "ar": "النهروالي",
   "ah": "990",
   "ce": "1582",
   "title": "Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya",
   "tar": "طبقات الحنفية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Hijaz",
   "place": "mecca",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "Burned with his library in 959/1552; he began rewriting it. Only an excerpt in al-Kafawī remains.",
   "note": "The Lahore-born mufti of Mecca wrote four volumes, which would have been valuable for scholars of India.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "zili",
   "slug": "al-zili-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.35",
   "c": 10,
   "sort": 1000,
   "author": "al-Zīlī",
   "full": "Abū al-Layth Muḥarram b. Muḥammad b. ʿĀrif al-Zīlī",
   "ar": "الزيلي",
   "ah": "1000",
   "ce": "1591–2",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "zile",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Nuruosmaniye 2422, fols. 41a–79a, and other copies.",
   "note": "The first prose biography of Abū Ḥanīfa written in Anatolia, in fifteen chapters, composed so that his brother Shams al-Dīn Sīvāsī could turn it into verse. Draws more on legal works than on earlier manāqib.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sivasi",
   "slug": "shams-al-din-sivasi-al-hiyad",
   "sec": "2.36",
   "c": 11,
   "sort": 1006,
   "author": "Shams al-Dīn Sīvāsī",
   "full": "Abū al-Thanāʾ Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĀrif al-Zīlī",
   "ar": "شمس الدين السيواسي",
   "ah": "1006",
   "ce": "1597",
   "title": "al-Ḥiyāḍ",
   "tar": "الحياض",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "sivas",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Turkish (verse)",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Lithograph, Istanbul 1291/1874, as Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam.",
   "note": "A Halveti shaykh's Turkish poem, composed in four months in 1001/1593 from his brother's prose, with a long opening on points of creed.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "tamimi",
   "slug": "al-tamimi-al-tabaqat-al-saniyya",
   "sec": "3.23",
   "c": 11,
   "sort": 1010,
   "author": "al-Tamīmī",
   "full": "Taqī al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tamīmī al-Dārī al-Ghazzī",
   "ar": "التميمي",
   "ah": "1010",
   "ce": "1601",
   "title": "al-Ṭabaqāt al-Saniyya",
   "tar": "الطبقات السنية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī (formerly Shāfiʿī)",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "partly",
   "hold": "Four volumes edited by ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Ḥulw (Riyadh 1983–89) reach the letter ʿayn, about 45% of the text. The rest is in manuscript, e.g. Köprülü, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 1113 and Beyazıt, Veliyyüddin 1609.",
   "note": "The largest of all, with 2,523 entries from about forty named sources, dedicated to Murad III. Dated 989/1581 but revised until the author's death.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "qari",
   "slug": "ali-al-qari-al-athmar-al-janiyya",
   "sec": "3.24",
   "c": 11,
   "sort": 1014,
   "author": "ʿAlī al-Qārī",
   "full": "Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Harawī al-Qārī",
   "ar": "علي القاري",
   "ah": "1014",
   "ce": "1606",
   "title": "al-Athmār al-Janiyya",
   "tar": "الأثمار الجنية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Hijaz",
   "place": "mecca",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Editions of 2002 (Khuda Bakhsh, India) and 2009 (Baghdad), each from a single manuscript.",
   "note": "In three parts: Abū Ḥanīfa and his students, abridged from al-Bazzāzī; over 700 Ḥanafīs, mainly from al-Jawāhir with additions from al-Fīrūzābādī; and sixteen Yemeni Ḥanafīs from al-Khazrajī. The first part is sometimes wrongly listed as a separate Manāqib.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ghunaymi",
   "slug": "al-ghunaymi-al-shadharat-al-latifa",
   "sec": "2.37",
   "c": 11,
   "sort": 1044,
   "author": "al-Ghunaymī",
   "full": "Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ghunaymī al-Anṣārī",
   "ar": "الغنيمي",
   "ah": "1044",
   "ce": "1635",
   "title": "al-Shadharāt al-Laṭīfa",
   "tar": "الشذرات اللطيفة",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī (formerly Shāfiʿī)",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known; his writings are said to have been lost in a shipwreck.",
   "note": "Recorded by his contemporary Kâtip Çelebi, who quotes its opening and says it could stand in for al-Bazzāzī.",
   "doubt": "An alternative title suggests it may have been about legal method, not biography."
  },
  {
   "id": "nuh",
   "slug": "nuh-al-rumi-al-durr-al-munazzam",
   "sec": "2.38",
   "c": 11,
   "sort": 1070,
   "author": "Nūḥ al-Rūmī",
   "full": "Nūḥ b. Muṣṭafā al-Rūmī al-Qūnawī",
   "ar": "نوح الرومي",
   "ah": "1070",
   "ce": "1660",
   "title": "al-Durr al-Munaẓẓam",
   "tar": "الدر المنظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Egypt",
   "place": "cairo",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Critical edition by Murat Şimşek, İslâm Hukuku Araştırmaları Dergisi 19 (2012).",
   "note": "A concise biography in seven chapters by an Amasya-born scholar who settled in Cairo. It follows the Egyptian works of the previous century but often cites their original sources.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "osmanzade",
   "slug": "osmanzade-ahmed-taib-manaqib-i-imam-i-azam",
   "sec": "2.39",
   "c": 12,
   "sort": 1136,
   "author": "ʿOsmānzāde Aḥmed Tāʾib",
   "full": "Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān, pen name Tāʾib",
   "ar": "عثمان زاده أحمد تائب",
   "ah": "1136",
   "ce": "1724",
   "title": "Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب إمام أعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Turkish",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy known.",
   "note": "By the Ottoman 'chief of poets', who was poisoned while chief judge of Egypt. Also known as Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "edirnevi",
   "slug": "kami-efendi-mahamm-al-fuqaha",
   "sec": "3.25",
   "c": 12,
   "sort": 1136.1,
   "author": "Kāmī Efendi (al-Edirnevī)",
   "full": "Meḥmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad al-Edirnevī al-Gülşenī",
   "ar": "الأدرنوي (كامي أفندي)",
   "ah": "1136",
   "ce": "1724",
   "title": "Mahāmm al-Fuqahāʾ",
   "tar": "مهام الفقهاء",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "Born in Edirne",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Survives in manuscript; an edition was being prepared as a master's thesis at Erciyes University.",
   "note": "A practical guide to the best-known Ḥanafī jurists, ordered by the name each is known by, with a list of book titles after every letter.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nazira",
   "slug": "nazira-ibrahim-efendi-manaqib-al-imam-al-azam",
   "sec": "2.40",
   "c": 12,
   "sort": 1188,
   "author": "Naẓīrā İbrāhīm Efendi",
   "full": "Ibrāhīm b. Muṣṭafā b. ʿAbd Allāh",
   "ar": "نظيرا إبراهيم أفندي",
   "ah": "1188",
   "ce": "1774",
   "title": "Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب الإمام الأعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "edirne",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Turkish",
   "status": "lost",
   "hold": "No copy found; Ismāʿīl Pasha still quoted its opening in the early 14th/20th century.",
   "note": "A Gülşeni shaykh, poet and historian of Edirne, nephew of Kāmī Efendi.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mustaqimzade",
   "slug": "mustakimzade-manaqib-i-imam-i-azam",
   "sec": "2.41",
   "c": 12,
   "sort": 1202,
   "author": "Müstaḳīmzāde",
   "full": "Sulaymān Saʿd al-Dīn b. Muḥammad Amīn",
   "ar": "مستقيم زاده",
   "ah": "1202",
   "ce": "1788",
   "title": "Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam",
   "tar": "مناقب إمام أعظم",
   "type": "m",
   "region": "Rumelia–Anatolia",
   "place": "istanbul",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Turkish",
   "status": "ms",
   "hold": "Topkapı, Hazine 1312, 136 fols., the author's copy.",
   "note": "Begun in 1168/1754. Twenty-four chapters modelled on ʿUqūd al-Jumān, with tables of 320 teachers and 924 students, chronograms and verse; about a quarter of it is a closing miscellany.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "fawaid",
   "slug": "al-laknawi-al-fawaid-al-bahiyya",
   "sec": "3.26",
   "c": 13,
   "sort": 1304,
   "author": "al-Laknawī",
   "full": "Abū al-Ḥasanāt Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī",
   "ar": "اللكنوي",
   "ah": "1304",
   "ce": "1886",
   "title": "al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyya",
   "tar": "الفوائد البهية",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "India",
   "place": "lucknow",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Lucknow (undated); Cairo 1324/1906; Beirut 1998.",
   "note": "Begun as an abridgement of al-Kafawī, rearranged alphabetically. Al-Laknawī's own additions, each introduced by 'the compiler says', outgrew the original. Finished in 1292/1875.",
   "doubt": null
  },
  {
   "id": "tarab",
   "slug": "al-laknawi-tarab-al-amathil",
   "sec": "3.27",
   "c": 13,
   "sort": 1304.1,
   "author": "al-Laknawī",
   "full": "Abū al-Ḥasanāt Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī",
   "ar": "اللكنوي",
   "ah": "1304",
   "ce": "1886",
   "title": "Ṭarab al-Amāthil",
   "tar": "طرب الأماثل",
   "type": "t",
   "region": "India",
   "place": "lucknow",
   "pnote": "",
   "school": "Ḥanafī",
   "lang": "Arabic",
   "status": "printed",
   "hold": "Lucknow 1303/1885; Beirut 1998 with al-Fawāʾid.",
   "note": "A supplement of 399 entries for scholars after al-Kafawī and those he missed, valuable for the Indian subcontinent.",
   "doubt": null
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "a": "zaranjari",
   "b": "abuhafs",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Nearly all his reports pass through Abū Ḥafṣ."
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "abuyahya",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Quotes the book repeatedly."
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "zaranjari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Uses letters from al-Zaranjarī."
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "zahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Uses letters from Ẓahīr al-Dīn in Bukhara."
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Compares oral reports with Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa."
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "himmani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Includes reports from al-Ḥimmānī."
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "himmani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Reports reach him through Mukram b. Aḥmad."
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "ibnkas",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Many reports transmitted from Ibn Kās."
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "tahawi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Consulted al-Ṭaḥāwī's book."
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "marzubani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Quotes his teacher frequently."
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "ibnuqda",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Reports transmitted through Ibn ʿUqda."
  },
  {
   "a": "dhahabi",
   "b": "iaa",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Follows Faḍāʾil Abī Ḥanīfa report by report."
  },
  {
   "a": "arzinjani",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Headings and content follow al-Ṣaymarī."
  },
  {
   "a": "jawahir",
   "b": "bustan",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "A summary of al-Bustān opens al-Jawāhir."
  },
  {
   "a": "jawahir",
   "b": "hamadhani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Al-Qurashī says he saw the book."
  },
  {
   "a": "jawahir",
   "b": "qutb",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Used his teacher's notes."
  },
  {
   "a": "bazzazi",
   "b": "makki",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Relies on al-Makkī, poems included."
  },
  {
   "a": "duqmaq",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "Most entries copied from al-Jawāhir."
  },
  {
   "a": "duqmaq",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "The life of Abū Ḥanīfa is taken from al-Ṣaymarī."
  },
  {
   "a": "duqmaq",
   "b": "zamakhshari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Probably the source of a poem he quotes."
  },
  {
   "a": "firuzabadi",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "An abridgement with a few additions."
  },
  {
   "a": "jazari",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "Reworks a draft of al-Jawāhir."
  },
  {
   "a": "jazari",
   "b": "bustan",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited for the life of Abū Ḥanīfa."
  },
  {
   "a": "taj",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Al-Qurashī is among the sources for his additions."
  },
  {
   "a": "iqmanaqib",
   "b": "qutb",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Quotes his Ṭabaqāt at length."
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "ibnkas",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cites Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān frequently."
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "saydalani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Preserves excerpts."
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "iaa",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "sabadhmuni",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "zaranjari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "makki",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Also quotes his poems."
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "bazzazi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "dhahabi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Quotes his teacher as 'our shaykh'."
  },
  {
   "a": "khayrat",
   "b": "salihi",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "An abridgement of ʿUqūd al-Jumān with additions."
  },
  {
   "a": "khayrat",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Adopts his view on the reports naming Abū Ḥanīfa."
  },
  {
   "a": "haytamimanaqib",
   "b": "bazzazi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "One of his most used sources."
  },
  {
   "a": "haytamimanaqib",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "qurtubi",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Main addition to the second version."
  },
  {
   "a": "qurtubi",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Where he learned of the earlier manāqib."
  },
  {
   "a": "rayhan",
   "b": "khayrat",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Al-Haytamī is the latest authority cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "sivasi",
   "b": "zili",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "A Turkish verse version of his brother's prose."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "salihi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "A main source."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "khayrat",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "A main source."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "sabadhmuni",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "makki",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "nuh",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "salihi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "The model for its chapters."
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "makki",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Also quotes his poems."
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "sivasi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Quotes verses from al-Ḥiyāḍ."
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "sabadhmuni",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "mustaqimzade",
   "b": "dhahabi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "tulun",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "sup",
   "n": "A supplement to al-Jawāhir."
  },
  {
   "a": "halabi",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "An abridgement."
  },
  {
   "a": "kafawi",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "kafawi",
   "b": "saymari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Named as an authority."
  },
  {
   "a": "kafawi",
   "b": "nahrawali",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Preserves a page-long excerpt."
  },
  {
   "a": "tamimi",
   "b": "himmani",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Records the contents of the Faṣl."
  },
  {
   "a": "qari",
   "b": "bazzazi",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "The first part abridges al-Bazzāzī."
  },
  {
   "a": "qari",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "The main part summarises al-Jawāhir."
  },
  {
   "a": "qari",
   "b": "firuzabadi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Main source for his additions."
  },
  {
   "a": "edirnevi",
   "b": "jawahir",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Named as a source."
  },
  {
   "a": "edirnevi",
   "b": "kafawi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Named as a source."
  },
  {
   "a": "edirnevi",
   "b": "taj",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Cited."
  },
  {
   "a": "edirnevi",
   "b": "kinali",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Named as an authority."
  },
  {
   "a": "fawaid",
   "b": "kafawi",
   "k": "abr",
   "n": "Begun as an abridgement of al-Katāʾib."
  },
  {
   "a": "fawaid",
   "b": "qari",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Extracts added."
  },
  {
   "a": "fawaid",
   "b": "tamimi",
   "k": "src",
   "n": "Extracts added."
  },
  {
   "a": "tarab",
   "b": "fawaid",
   "k": "sup",
   "n": "A supplement and completion."
  },
  {
   "a": "sabadhmuni",
   "b": "abuhafs",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "iaa",
   "b": "tahawi",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "saymari",
   "b": "marzubani",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "makki",
   "b": "zamakhshari",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "jawahir",
   "b": "qutb",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "ibnmibrad",
   "b": "taj",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "shihna",
   "b": "taj",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "sakhawi",
   "b": "taj",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "tulun",
   "b": "ibnmibrad",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "salihi",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "tulun",
   "b": "suyuti",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "sakhawi",
   "b": "iqs",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "sakhawi",
   "b": "ayni",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "sakhawi",
   "b": "shihna",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "qari",
   "b": "khayrat",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "qari",
   "b": "nahrawali",
   "k": "tch",
   "n": ""
  },
  {
   "a": "sivasi",
   "b": "zili",
   "k": "fam",
   "n": "Brothers."
  },
  {
   "a": "nazira",
   "b": "edirnevi",
   "k": "fam",
   "n": "Nephew and uncle."
  }
 ],
 "places": {
  "bukhara": {
   "name": "Bukhara",
   "lon": 64.42,
   "lat": 39.77
  },
  "nishapur": {
   "name": "Nishapur",
   "lon": 58.8,
   "lat": 36.21
  },
  "baghdad": {
   "name": "Baghdad",
   "lon": 44.37,
   "lat": 33.31
  },
  "kufa": {
   "name": "Kufa",
   "lon": 44.4,
   "lat": 32.03
  },
  "cairo": {
   "name": "Cairo",
   "lon": 31.24,
   "lat": 30.04
  },
  "mecca": {
   "name": "Mecca",
   "lon": 39.83,
   "lat": 21.42
  },
  "ghazna": {
   "name": "Ghazna",
   "lon": 68.42,
   "lat": 33.55
  },
  "khwarazm": {
   "name": "Jurjaniyya",
   "lon": 59.15,
   "lat": 42.32
  },
  "bayhaq": {
   "name": "Bayhaq",
   "lon": 57.68,
   "lat": 36.21
  },
  "damascus": {
   "name": "Damascus",
   "lon": 36.29,
   "lat": 33.51
  },
  "aleppo": {
   "name": "Aleppo",
   "lon": 37.16,
   "lat": 36.2
  },
  "jerusalem": {
   "name": "Jerusalem",
   "lon": 35.23,
   "lat": 31.78
  },
  "zabid": {
   "name": "Zabid",
   "lon": 43.32,
   "lat": 14.2
  },
  "istanbul": {
   "name": "Istanbul",
   "lon": 28.98,
   "lat": 41.01
  },
  "edirne": {
   "name": "Edirne",
   "lon": 26.56,
   "lat": 41.68
  },
  "zile": {
   "name": "Zile",
   "lon": 35.89,
   "lat": 40.3
  },
  "sivas": {
   "name": "Sivas",
   "lon": 37.02,
   "lat": 39.75
  },
  "lucknow": {
   "name": "Lucknow",
   "lon": 80.95,
   "lat": 26.85
  }
 },
 "regions": [
  "Iraq",
  "Khurasan",
  "Transoxiana",
  "Khwarazm",
  "Syria",
  "Egypt",
  "Hijaz",
  "Yemen",
  "Rumelia–Anatolia",
  "India",
  "Not placed"
 ],
 "centuries": [
  {
   "c": 3,
   "label": "3rd",
   "range": "200–300",
   "text": "The first two written biographies of Abū Ḥanīfa appear, in Bukhara and Nishapur, while oral transmission still dominates."
  },
  {
   "c": 4,
   "label": "4th",
   "range": "300–400",
   "text": "Documentation (tadwīn) peaks, centred on Baghdad, with Egypt, Bukhara, Khurasan and Mecca contributing."
  },
  {
   "c": 5,
   "label": "5th",
   "range": "400–500",
   "text": "A slowdown on the Baghdad–Khurasan axis, but al-Ṣaymarī writes the first Ḥanafī ṭabaqāt."
  },
  {
   "c": 6,
   "label": "6th",
   "range": "500–600",
   "text": "Writing revives as the school's centre moves to Transoxiana and Khwarazm."
  },
  {
   "c": 7,
   "label": "7th",
   "range": "600–700",
   "text": "No known works. The Mongol invasions devastate Transoxiana, Khwarazm, Khurasan and Iraq."
  },
  {
   "c": 8,
   "label": "8th",
   "range": "700–800",
   "text": "The tradition restarts in Mamluk Syria and Egypt, and al-Qurashī writes al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya."
  },
  {
   "c": 9,
   "label": "9th",
   "range": "800–902",
   "text": "Ṭabaqāt compilations multiply on the Egypt–Syria axis, and about half the authors are not Ḥanafīs."
  },
  {
   "c": 10,
   "label": "10th",
   "range": "903–1000",
   "text": "The most productive century, as Ottoman scholars join in after the conquest of Syria and Egypt."
  },
  {
   "c": 11,
   "label": "11th",
   "range": "1001–1100",
   "text": "Decline begins, and three of the five works come from Cairo."
  },
  {
   "c": 12,
   "label": "12th",
   "range": "1100–1202",
   "text": "All four works are by Ottoman authors, and the three manāqib among them are in Turkish."
  },
  {
   "c": 13,
   "label": "13th",
   "range": "1203–1304",
   "text": "Both works are by al-Laknawī, the first from the Indian subcontinent."
  }
 ]
}