Know that the majority of hadith-scholars that a man becomes a Tabi‘i by merely meeting a Sahabi and seeing him, and it is not a condition that he accompanies him for a period of time and narrates from him. said in Tadrib al-Rawi on the definition of a Tabi‘i:
It was said: he is one who met him although he did not accompany him, as was said on a Sahabi, and al-Hakim with...
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The Islamic Ummah is united that Imam A‘zam Abu Hanifah Nu‘man ibn Thabit (may Allah mercy him) is one of the four followed imams -- Malik, al-Shafi‘i, Ahmad and Abu Hanifah (may Allah mercy them all and be pleased with them).
Among those issues upon which all of the people of knowledge from both the early and latter times are agreed is that these four jurists, and their likes from among the mujtahid imams whose followers have gradually died out, only derived fiqh issues (masa’il)...
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