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ManāqibṬabaqātHollow: lost
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ManāqibṬabaqātHollow: lost
3rd200–300The first two written biographies of Abū Ḥanīfa appear, in Bukhara and Nishapur, while oral transmission still dominates.
4th300–400Documentation (tadwīn) peaks, centred on Baghdad, with Egypt, Bukhara, Khurasan and Mecca contributing.
- al-Ḥimmānī (Ibn al-Ṣalt), Faṣl fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
- al-Ṭaḥāwī, ʿUqūd al-Marjān
- Ibn Kās, Tuḥfat al-Sulṭān
- Ibn ʿUqda, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Musnaduhu
- Ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām, Faḍāʾil Abī Ḥanīfa
- al-Sabadhmūnī, Kashf al-Āthār
- al-Shuʿaybī, Faḍāʾil Abī Ḥanīfa
- al-Marzubānī, Kitāb Abī Ḥanīfa
- al-Ṣaydalānī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
5th400–500A slowdown on the Baghdad–Khurasan axis, but al-Ṣaymarī writes the first Ḥanafī ṭabaqāt.
6th500–600Writing revives as the school's centre moves to Transoxiana and Khwarazm.
7th600–700no worksNo known works. The Mongol invasions devastate Transoxiana, Khwarazm, Khurasan and Iraq.
8th700–800The tradition restarts in Mamluk Syria and Egypt, and al-Qurashī writes al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya.
- Ibn al-Naqīb, Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
- Masʿūd b. Shayba, Ṭabaqāt al-Aṣḥāb
- Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- al-Arzinjānī, Nuzhat al-Abrār
- al-Dhahabī, Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa
- al-Ṭarsūsī, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān
- Ibn al-Muhandis, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- al-Qurashī, al-Bustān
- al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
9th800–902Ṭabaqāt compilations multiply on the Egypt–Syria axis, and about half the authors are not Ḥanafīs.
- Ibn Duqmāq, Naẓm al-Jumān
- al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Mirqāt al-Wafiyya
- al-Bazzāzī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
- Ibn Musāfir, Faḍāʾil al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa
- Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Darajāt al-ʿAliyya
- Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- al-ʿAynī, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- Ibn al-Dawālībī, Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa
- Ibn Quṭlūbughā, Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
- Ibn Quṭlūbughā, Tāj al-Tarājim
- Ibn Ājā, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- Ibn al-Shiḥna, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- al-Sakhāwī, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
10th903–1000The most productive century, as Ottoman scholars join in after the conquest of Syria and Egypt.
- Ibn al-Mibrad, Tanwīr al-Ṣaḥīfa
- al-Suyūṭī, Tabyīḍ al-Ṣaḥīfa
- Kemālpaşazāde, Tarājim baʿḍ al-Aḥnāf
- al-Ṣāliḥī, ʿUqūd al-Jumān
- Ibn Ṭūlūn, al-Ghuraf al-ʿAliyya
- Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī, Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
- Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
- Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī, al-Khayrāt al-Ḥisān
- al-Qurṭubī, Qalāʾid ʿUqūd al-Durar
- Kınalızāde, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- Unknown author, al-Rayḥān
- Shaykh Abū Saʿīd, Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
- al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār
- al-Nahrawālī, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
- al-Zīlī, Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
11th1001–1100Decline begins, and three of the five works come from Cairo.
12th1100–1202All four works are by Ottoman authors, and the three manāqib among them are in Turkish.
13th1203–1304Both works are by al-Laknawī, the first from the Indian subcontinent.
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