Sufyān al-Thawrī and the Kufans
Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/777?) was a major Kufan jurisprudent with a later reputation for special hostility to Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767) and his school and for upholding hadith against raʾy. However, the record of his hadith transmission as preserved in ninthcentury collections shows that he mainly bo...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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