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Sunni Schools
H anafi Mlik Shfi H anbal
Hanafi
(Abbasid, Ottoman period). Now, in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, North India, Pakistan, Central Asia, and China
Abu Hanifa (d. 767) -- Kufa, Iraq Abu Yusuf (d. 798) Muhammad b. Hasan alShaybani (d. 804)
Hanafi (Contd.)
Qiyas
Illa
(e.g. Q. 62:9)
Istihsan
Hanafi
Ijma
(my people will never agree upon error): Consensus of the qualified legal authorities of a given generation (infallible). (In practice, local consensus accepted).
Maliki
Upper Egypt, North Africa Malik b. Anas (d. 796) Median Al-Muwatta (the Trodden Path): e.g.
Shafii
Lower Egypt, South India, and Malaya Muhammad b. Idris al-ShafiI (d.820) [Studied in Mecca, Median, Iraq, and Syria] Risala (written in Cairo) Quran, Sunna (in hadith), ijma (entire Muslim Community)
Qiyas
Hanbali
Saudi Arabia and Qatar Ahmad b. Hanbal (d. 855)
Later Hanbalis
Later Hanbalis: Fatwas of the Companions, Sayings of Companions (individual), ahadith (with weak asnad);
qiyas
Shiite Schools
Jafar
Shiite Hadith
Muhammad Kulayni (d. 940), al-Kafi fi ilm al-din [Baghdad]; 16,199 ahadith through ahl al-bayt Ibn Babuya, Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Qummi , also called al-Sadduq (d. 991), Man La yah'dharhu al-faqih. 5,973 ahadith
Shiite Hadith
Muhammd al-Tusi (d. 1067). Taught in Baghdad. In Najaf established the Howza Ilmiyyah. Hadith Works: Tah'dhib al-ah'kam, 12,590 ahadith; al-Istibsar 5,521 ahadith