Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth

I thought let's introduce I say introduce everybody knows the legend Imam because what it's a name that we hear so often about but simultaneously maybe some people ain't so familiar with um the great Imam and I thought maybe I could speak on different occasions about different imams and introduce them to you right so Imam Abu hanifa that's his kunya by the way some people they become more popular they like Iconia and they use that as a

name so uh Abu hanifa is a prime example like Abu hurairah from the companions these were not their their names these became their names like it's a Kunia Abu something um so you get people up or late I I use a Kunia as a name so some people the acunia is it's just it's an adopted name and Imam Abu hanifa his actual name was

yeah I believe it's marzaban yes so his ancestry was he was of Persian ancestry um he was born in 80 history so that's about 70 years after the prophet salallahu he was from the either the the the the the the lower end of the tabern or from the upper end of the tabataba and those who come after the turbine so you have the sahaba the companions of the Prophet then you have those who come after turbine so he's either from them or from the the the Tibetan who come

after them his parents and sorry his grandparents are the ones who embraced Islam I believe in the time of uh some people say in the time of um or some people say in the time of Allah but they were from a they were from a wealthy background and they embraced Islam and they were from originally from Kabul in modern day Afghanistan so I don't know whether that makes them baton maybe I don't know but or maybe more

Farsi speak but I don't know because he would have spoke he spoke Farsi so I guess but I don't know where the back then so you got to go back you see at least over 12 1300 years ago so so at that stage I don't know whether Pashto was developed or not but yeah so he was from his his ancestry was from Kabul his grandparents moved towards Iraq and so on they embraced Islam he himself is born in kufa in the year 80 history um some people say that there's a myth that his grandparents

um served a gift to and they were they were great hospitable people and they served a gift to say who made Dua for them you know this is and this is something as well look one it's something try to give gifts to people and also if you receive something nice try to make a Dua for someone and try to gift the gift of Dua to someone you see it doesn't cost you anything to make a Dua you know may Allah bless you may Allah

keep you smiling may Allah you know fill your life with happiness I mean you know it costs nothing why do we struggle to say this to someone it's because it's something in ourselves a disease and of the heart man so yeah so people say that some and there's some stories that you know like faluda there's uh I don't know whether it's the same falooda but there was an old dessert known as valuzaj and some people say he served the grandparents served that to say who in turn made to our may Allah bless

your family or something and they say that you know as a consequence of this Dua you have the legend of Imam that family but he was born in the eight year eighty history he grew up in a world-to-do family that was from a trading background his parents his father was also a Trader uh um into you usually I mean I suppose there were many different trades but they were into cloth and fabric and textiles that kind of trade didn't actually grow up

um inclined towards Islamic uh knowledge and that kind of stuff he wasn't a part of those circles so obviously he was a Muslim he I'm not saying he he I'm sure he was a great Muslim but he was just a normal Muslim he wasn't he was a businessman that he wasn't a scholar of Islam who used to go to circles and some people say he memorized the Quran as a kid but I guess in that day and age many people memorize the Quran as children but he wasn't inclined he you know he grew up he was a young man he was into business he was doing well very well in business and they say you know you'd

wear the most expensive of clothes very stylish clothes even right through his Imam ship he always maintained that style he he would often wear you know like Dapper clothing and dashing style he had and um he would he would be very Innovative with his fashion sense now they say one day he as a young man so I'm not sure what arguably in his maybe 20s which was quite yeah it was quite an age because back then people weren't you know those who got into seeking Islamic knowledge

got into it when they were just maybe from the age of 10. so this is now you've fully developed you're a grown man you know your business mind you're thriving he was walking through um in Iraq once and he walks past shabi the great turbo um and he was a great Imam has his own mother very well known Sharpie and he walks past him and shabby says to him uh he looks at Shelby and shabby looks at him and he and he says salaam and he calls him and you know who at that time he's just not a man

walks up to him and shabby asks him like who do you who do you hang out with where do you hang out so he says businessman so he goes he says he says I wasn't talking I didn't ask you about these I asked you which of the halakats which of the academic elmi circles do you hang out with and he says Lala he says

he says I'm you know I go to the markets you know I trade that's what I do so shabby looks at him and he descends you know there is something people can some people they have a gift of reading reading you they can see something in you and about you and he says to him he says he says make it your business to go to those circles

he says for I see in you a brilliance an extraordinary future like I see in you this light and you know this these words they they truck quite strangely and he he went off he couldn't shake them off and then he starts he thinks you know what okay let's go to these circles but he and this became this becomes the beginning of an absolute new

life-changing Adventure for who was not a man ibna service into becoming this metamorphosis into this legendary Imam Abu hanifa right so and the Journey Begins there and he be he brings with it you know we had this quote earlier today um which said that I'll I'll try and bring it back up

all right so you can see it there all right just as I bring it it goes right so ah yes alarm right so this there it is I'm trying to press pause it just doesn't pause that's better finally does right so it said blessed are those you see and he speaks about that that all the Curious for they will have

Adventures now this is it because you know what curious mind it brings something that's just unmatchable hanifa brought this mind that was on fire he brought a soul you know he set his soul aflame with the love of this Helm of Islam and he really he starts they say the first thing he started learning about um some people say it's

other things then he got into fear he got into tafsir he studied all the and he became this Legend of an individual so renowned his is as the years went by his reputation just it spread like wildfire he had um studied he studied under many people but he keenly took the tutelage of a Greek of Iraq Nabi Suleiman and there's another Hamad as well but this was

and you can see that who's a student of us word and the other great early Iraqis Wars so you see this Legacy coming down now after Hamad had passed away Imam became That central figure in kufa there were other people by the way in kufa he wasn't like this there were people like sophiana thori there was ibnabi Leila there was there was a bunch of people in kufa but Imam you know his reputation spread because Hamad was so huge and he was a key student of Hamad and then he carries this torch after him and he

loved Hamad so much that he named his own son Hamad Ibrahim Abu hanifa's son is named and yeah so and he becomes what he sets into motion or not sets into motion really but he concretizes this school which becomes known as the school of reason and he was a legendary voice for the voice of reason honestly a legend and it's so inspiring and and you know something they say about Imam of hanifa that

he you see he had this charm and I mentioned before he had this epic everybody even centuries after him they would cite his fashion sin and you may say well what's so special about fashion you know it's of the world but you have to remember how Imam Malik said he said that as a person of of knowledge you become a symbol to people and this is why Imam Malik often worked on his physique and they say he had a strong physique and he would eat every single day Imam Malik would eat a certain portion of

meat for his protein and when asked he said it's important because it helps with the posture and it helps with your physique and stature which then has an impact when people meet you and are in your presence so similarly these things were they did play a role and uh so for they say that in his day and age there was something about long sleeves that had become a new fashion and Imam of hanifa would often have these kind of things but I guess with notoriety you get as

well hate and he was Imam of hanifa was subjected to an immense amount of hate as well a lot of people hated on him there was a lot of false propaganda about him people said you know he his Islam is made up they said his Islam is just based on desires his Islam everything's Halal according to Abu hanifa you know he had they had this this kind of thing about him um that he uses his reason that he uses his opinions that he would speak of so this thing of Imam if you read the early

uh criticisms of the scholars that were all in his day and age and just after him that were hurling criticism it's full of all of this that they would say oh he's just you know he's just absorbed in fashion he's just he doesn't you know it's just all about opinion personal opinion he just uses reason over the Quran he he's a deviant everything is permitted according to him he doesn't declare things Haram he doesn't you know all this kind these were it's so interesting that when you read it it's like wow nobody would think that now because he's

he's this legendary Imam now but in his day and age he was given a you know he had a lot of love but he there was a lot of hate as well but something you know the thing about him is okay some of the hate came to him from maybe certain voices that were maybe Rivals and things like like sophiana thori who's a great Imam but he often hated on Imam which wasn't really you know a good thing to be honest but you know I guess things happen um and and they lived in the same town as

well so you the you know the Rivalry was quite bitter but as far as I'm away didn't really uh diss him to uh as in I'm sure he maybe joked about but I don't think he um I've not ever read Imam uh you know being venomous about others I've heard others being venomous about him similarly you see with Imam Malik now Imam Malik's a bit different because everybody respected Imam Malik you know he's he's this Imam Malik is one way even those who didn't disrespect him

Allah forced the love of Imam Malik in their hearts so they couldn't you know there was just this thing about Imam Ali he was on another but him and obviously see even when they criticize each other that um they um but they keep it reasonably they always respectful dignified Imam Malik Imam Malik also felt that you know his opinions weren't they missed the mark but he didn't disrespect him like he did say that you know he said he said I met a man who had great

understanding and knowledge but he says if only he built on a firm foundation Legends you know I'll tell you something there was this time where all these imams got together wow and just imagine if you could be a fly on the wall so it's in the prophet's mask they all got together you had Imam Malik Imam you had Imam you had a little bit and I believe you also had sofian Toby um I'm not so sure whether it was sufyan or

it was Abdullah Mubarak but there was these top four I mean these were the heavyweights of the world you know oh lazy wow and they just really sat there and just discussed they just sat there for hours talking to each other it was beautiful honestly just knowing that they met it excites me

and it's interesting that afterwards they asked Imam Malik what do you think because Imam Malik was the dawn of Madina you know use the the Imam he's the legend isn't it so they asked Imam Malik afterwards what did you think of him he says yeah he says that you know he says that if he wanted to debate you that this pillar was made out of gold he he would do it and he would win meaning that the pillar isn't made out of gold but he would still not only would he if he wanted to debate you on it would he do it but he would win

it's very sharp you see your mama hanifa was so he was so quick-witted this was the thing about him and yeah and the thing you know so his width so you have many cases in his day and age many people would come to him where they would be stuck in religious things and he would find loopholes for them and and now some people criticize this they said that why was he finding loopholes and you know and this is why his student Muhammad he also has a book A book of loopholes these kind of legal loopholes now you see so they're seeing it as

always a loophole as in you're trying to but hanifa wasn't seeing it like that you see he was seeing it as that I'm he was seeing it like that I'm helping people to I'm welcoming them and creating ease for them in this faith that this faith is not rigid I'm facilitating that they fall in love with Islam this was his way that he would often you know his fatawa were things like he used to say

imam's wife a person struggled with Arabic he could uh read Salah in Persian Farsi he could if a person never knew a lot of his fatawas are like that they're like well oh if you don't know this just say this if you don't know that just say it look weird if you don't know this you could do a lot of his fatawa are just about making E's and E's and ease and people obviously they took it the wrong way and they weaponized it against him tried to say oh my God you know you said oh you couldn't you know oh you could pray in Farsi you could pray in Persian but

he was you see it's not it's not they they missed the mark like they're missing the point he wasn't trying to say change Islam he was trying to make it easy for them you know people not everybody in his day and age spoke well Arabic a lot of people remember it's the early tabern era a lot of people are embracing Islam is the omeyad era and he was trying to create ease for them you know you can still pray don't worry when you learn it then do it now right now oh you only know Farsi do it in Farsi

you know this this honestly there's so much to admire about the Imam and I feel in many ways his his spirit is the same spirit that is needed in this day and age yeah and he um he did he did get into he found himself in some difficult times at least on on two he at least found himself in two major uh inquisitions okay a victim of one was in the time of body Armenia and then one but an Abbas and that's his Imam Abu hanifa's political side

because even though he himself didn't rise up in politics but he took a stance to support or he gave you know he stood in solidarity with um the the political so the uprising so the Albert the family of the Prophet see because in bunny omega's time you know the the issues of Bunny umaya and the family of the prophet and and then there was the the the rising of Zaid Zaid you know the son of Zain Imam Zaid

kind of stem from and there was that Uprising and Imam of hanifa um it's this is what what is written is that he um supported Imam zaid's movement against and he was he got into a lot of trouble for this and he had to FL he fled Iraq and he came to Makkah for uh quite some while and I mean he moved around and then he went back and but he you know he faced some persecution but then this was in the time of uh Abdul Malik um then after that quite weak anyway and

you and they say I think in um 130 hijri he fled uh kufa and then it's only around that time 131 history take over the abbases take over so he comes back and he and then he gets into trouble later on with the abbasids but you see the abbasids they did recognize the uh respect of Imam on one hand they did they clearly you know a lot of people don't know this but commissioned when he was making Baghdad he commissioned Abu hanifa to be the chief uh what would you call it today

you'd call it like um like the project manager he was the chief project manager of when they were constructing Baghdad for four years he was supervising the project I mean he was these weren't just your any you know these were very not intelligent uh accomplished individuals they were huge and remember by this time he is Imam Abu hanifa he's not just any just not manipulative and he has many students many countless students he notably you have uh Abu Yusuf also known by his

name but he's known as Abu Yusuf his main one of his main students Imam Muhammad who actually just studied with Imam of hanifa for only I think maybe two years if that but but the but he transmits the books in the meth Hub the main books from the Imam which are known as there are six books they are all written by Imam Muhammad he's the real voice of the hanafi method that tries you know that starts setting the institution into motion as in because

time it's more a spirit it's not the letter it's not structured it's not an institution after him the institution begins really with the likes of Imam Muhammad Imam Abu Yusuf you do have also people like zofar zofor is actually a senior student uh of imambo hanifa but delegated to the third position we're really in many ways he you know it's that's another discussion should he be number one or how should he be but I think has some interesting points on that but then he had many

other students as well there's um these are the main students but the books get documented really by Muhammad he has this top collection known as the zahiruriat the apparent transmission that's what it's called and they are his his major book The Asal or the mobs then you have his ear that these six texts are the mother texts of the meth Hab of the Transmissions from Imam um

I believe that they are over a hundred thousand issues in them hundred thousand must say these then get summarized by um what's his name by um in his book which is then expanded on by uh in his mob suit so that's how these Transmissions get um transmitted but that's the method you see that I always feel there's a difference between Imam and his mother um that's a different discussion you

know for another day you know we have an opinion on that maybe people agree with it maybe they don't I feel that his method kind of along the way as the generations went by they lost our spirit and and the more centuries that went by became radically kind of institutionalized and and you know as Dr Sherman Jackson says in his um from the states he has this term that there's the crypto shafization of the medherb so they become kind of crypto shafes where they apparently Hannah fees but they switch because the

spirit of the method changes it becomes all about the letter of the law it's all about things become most things become Haram most things are very and I suppose they've got their justifications they're saying that's the reason but it but it's very opposite to the spirit that Imam Abu hanifa brought you know he he brought this trying to make welcome everyone and never say things are uh you know very reluctant to say things are Haram very trying to create ease you know oh you're struggling with this well why don't you pray in Farsi or you're doing this why don't you just do it like that you know that to the extent that they said well oh if a person was

struggling to make wudu he couldn't find water he's about see in that day and age people you know you might be in a place you can't find what you see water in the past it's it's it's interesting because today water is just on tap so it's everywhere but in in the past it's not I mean obviously people had water but sometimes when people were traveling and doing things they may take certain fermented drinks because it was less likely to have bacteria in it and it's actually more healthy so this is why for example this is why the Roman soldiers or you know they would drink

beer as opposed to water because obviously the beer had a very low alcohol content but it would because it was less likely to contain germs whereas if you just drank water chances are it's not like water today you know you just water in the past some of it would just led to infections and it could have been infested and I'm not saying all water but I'm just saying that there and it's true Islam it kind of forced people to say well no we're going to move away from this whole fermented uh Alternatives and therefore Muslims by had to you know Necessities the mother of invention so they had to invent all

these aqueducts and bring water in and and do all of that so that which was great but in his time you might have had people that have nabiv which is a very low content kind of um almost like a beer kind of no except Nabis would be from really date so I don't know whether you'd call that up but it was like a fermented date drink so you probably had very low alcohol content like maybe I don't know one percent or you know something like that so it wasn't that alcoholic but it would have had uh some alcoholic content but it wasn't Haram according to the hanafi

mother because it's it's a tiny amount of uh it's negligible so that kind of um tiny percentage of alcohol of ethanol uh you see we say alcohol ethanol is not it's negligible according to to that method I know the hanafies have disagreed but according to the early school anyway would have been look if you couldn't find water you could do wood with Nabis you can take this fermented thing and just do wood with it like look creating ease for people and a lot of people would come to the Imam

when they were stuck and he would help them find a way out and you know in that day and age as well people as well they they are stupid problems because they would you know they would self-inflicted people would take all these Customs um and they would say things like um they would say things like oh if I do this then my wife's divorced or if that happens my wife's divorce you know on every other thing they applies did and they're stuck they've come to the likes of Imam see because the likes of Imam Malik were very different

Imam Malik was also a voice of reason but he had like zero tolerance for uh you know if a person came like this oh I said this about my wife I said this deal he wouldn't be entertaining it he wouldn't even be he would just he wouldn't be part of that conversation he would just be gone and he'd be like don't ever disturb me again for your stupidity you know Imam Malik was a very serious he had a more serious uh tone to him Imam hanifa was more a very uh a very jolly exuberant like people's person and

and you could see this coming back to his his trade and businessman kind of because because that's how he grew up he was a very you know he was a very successful businessman so yeah so people would approach him he would help them he would say well okay do this do this this is a you know this is how it can be and people did they rated his Brilliance for for really doing stuff like that there's a you know there's a uh there's an incident I'll share some stories with you guys right so from I think I shared this one before once they say that

in his time in kufa once and this couple were getting married so sometimes to let's say you had a friend or some a relative or even it could have been a dear friend or could have been a cousin or it could have been someone and to save expenses or maybe just to make it more extravagant you might have a combined wedding as in you know what I'm getting married you're getting why don't we just both get married on uh Sunday and you know that way we could pool our resources together and we could it could be even better you know and so people sometimes did stuff like this so you had this joint marriage going on

so two people marrying you know two couples so when it comes to okay the zifa in Arabic is the the the kind of uh what what they call Urdu where the bride is kind of she goes with the groom and usually and the you know in Arabic they're very they're not so sensitive about sexual matters so they're very clear that zifaph is about going on sex or love making shall we say it's they're very clear they're not like obviously in order these kind of words are very nobody uses words like that

they just say you know it's just this but in Arabic they'll say very clearly it's about Bina and it's about the whole and it's about you know uh sexual intimacy for the couple so right so if so after this this whole kind of do whatever they have in the wedding the it's the safavath time but people here there's a mistake man the the wives are sent to the wrong mistaken homes so they send this wife to that home and that wife to that home so obviously in that day and age as well

you see sometimes people hadn't seen their husbands and wives properly like they didn't know you know arranged marriages they they just knew okay it's that person I haven't seen him and they just accepted it so now they end up and obviously um you know a right number wrong door number next door they're like well so they get on with it they harmonize you know the souls as the souls gel together there's a music of the harmony of the souls so they had the the kind of uh

harmonization and they had they spent the the laylators if uh in in a state of bliss with one another what happens is um the next morning one of them realizes wait a minute you're not so and so Care number that I thought what name did you say yeah that's not the name I got married to I got married to this so they realized what the hell are you sure no it wasn't wait wait a minute you're meant to be marrying the other guy who we had a

joint wedding so damn so they've realized oh this is a great disaster so obviously both couples find out that they like what the hell you know get the masterminds together so they call upon the great imams of the city of the town to come fix it so this is in kufa so they call the likes of sofiana thori other imams they call Imam of hanifa so they turn up and they say look we've got this problem and so they're thinking and they're in this room they're having a conference and he says okay he says look listen he says I'll tell you what to do so they say what shall we do so they say

what you do is uh he says each husband divorces his wife and when he's divorced her they wait a night there which is going to be three menstrual cycles let's say just to make sure they're not pregnant and then the new then the other original husband can you know do the nikah with them and again just for the sake of you know and and they can remarry okay so so this is what and then whilst he's saying this he says I heard from such and such of the salaf of the predecessors that there was a case a bit similar to a different

case but it had some similarity and this is what such and such ruled and so on so you know Imam sufyan authori says this and he's quite happy with his answer he looks around and people are like you know Imam but then he looks over there and he can see Imam Abu hanifa not so impressed Legend so he looks at him and he thinks he thinks why have you got that look on your face and he says what's up with you and he says he's just thinking he says he says have you got a better opinion he says do you agree with what I'm saying so Imam goes

he just makes a face he says well have you got anything better says if I may say please he says my suggestion he says before I suggest anything I want you to bring the Grooms here and also call upon the wives to come as well so first of all the Grooms come because they're there anyway and he asked them he says look okay put this you know mistake aside he says how were you with you know the partner that

you ended up with how did you find your evening how did you find the person did you gel well were the issues friction they say look no you know we were mistaken but otherwise we got on really well you know a little bit of romance sometimes okay you know this one so he says that you know they say and he asked the other guy he says yeah look you know we got on really well but obviously we found out in the morning it was you know mistaken identity says okay hang on until he waits for the women to come and he says uh let's ask them um that so he sent somebody to ask them

in private how did you put the mistake aside how did you how do you feel about the the person you ended up with were they okay and they said yeah you know they're fine I like them there's nothing wrong with them it's just it's mistaken identity says in that case I suggest that each one of you divorces his original wife and you do a knicker here right now in our presence with this with the wife you ended up with and you can move right in straight away

with her because you the idea in case she's pregnant let's say is from you so because it's the idea is from you there's no need to to wait there's no grace period because even if there is a pregnancy it's your child and that way none of you will have anything in your heart about the other person because you might think bloody hell you know oh she was over there or he was with her what the hell what and these things might play on your mind so the couple they were actually really impressed and fascinated with that opinion and they went with it they said

that that's what we want they said wow this was a testimony to on the spot the kind of engineer you know highly Innovative engineered it's the heart of Imam so it's a it's just so there's so many stories like that but I'll tell you something I'll move on towards in wrapping this up but you see the thing about Imam um he he had his elmy side to him he had he

one may say he had a social particular like a political side if you want to say political or a stature he was known by the caliph he was um you know he stood with Imam Zaid when I say stored as in he was in solidarity with him he got in trouble uh then in the time of Imam Muhammad Naf zakiya which is another movement from the family of the prophecy which arose in uh which arose in Medina and he stood in defense with him because Imam Muhammad had a brother in kufa I

believe Ibrahim who Abu hanifa was extending his solidarity to and this is why he was punished and put in prison and then eventually he died or arguably was poisoned in prison by the caliph or by you know the the politics of the time so you he had this side where he took these stances and he had this Innovative it's the hard side and this Spirit of Islam and making Islam easy for people and trying to all of this and he had the criticism but you know the thing about Imam one of that that really stands out

was his compassion for people you know this is what really won the heart of so many people around him was his compassion he would spend money on people because he was he was very wealthy a lot you know blessed him with risk he would spend money on his students on his teachers on people he would if he found out somebody was struggling with something he would try to go and you know somebody's struggling to get their child married and they don't have the funds he would go and fund it he would he would you would do so much where he

could just help people just bring a smile to their face this this is the the really the the winning feature that really makes his legacy glow and he um there's several incidents you know there's an incident where a somebody used to attend his study Circle and always dressed like you know dressed a bit like a let's say he'll dress really like oh like it's impoverished

saw this one time when the class is over not in front of the rest of the people Imam asks him to stay behind he says he says hang back a little while so he does everybody goes he says to him look come here and he moves this he has this bag he opens it and Imam has got this purse of gold pieces in there of peanuts he says to him take this and buy yourself some some good clothes and the person looks at Imam about hanifa and says oh oh no you've completely misread me he says I'm actually quite well to do he says Allah has blessed me

he says I appreciate what you're doing but he says I've actually got money I've you know imagine looked at him and he said because because the person in Arabic said look Allah has already given His blessings his name to me meaning I've got money then Imam said to him then where are the signs of his name upon you know

he said if Allah has gifted you with risk then dress well so let it be known not in a boastful way but don't appear as though you are you know like in this like homeless kind of state almost and by the way I'm not speaking about I know in Islam there is a tradition of the Mystic Wanderers you know like the Great disheveled kind of wandering Mystics the Great sufis and the great who I don't

mean them who just became Hermits and just adopted they had a way of their own but this is for people who are living in just being part of society but they've got the blessings from Allah but they don't adopting them they're acting as though you know they're struggling we're all they're making it look like that so this was an amazing side of his that look he how he was trying to intervene and and help and um yeah you know there's I've I think I've shared this I have shared this story before I'll share it again

there was a neighbor in uh I don't know whether this was in Baghdad or doing kufa because it might have been in Baghdad as well because was there for a little while as well now because he was you know the supervising kind of manager as well for the project when they were building constructing the city now he had a neighbor who really dislike religious people couldn't stand them you know you get some of those people

unfortunately some people religious people like that oh you know with the where they've found religion yet not found it but you get other people as well that hate religion sometimes they hate anybody to do with religion and so this person was a Muslim it was a Muslim but he just hated he felt they're just religious they're just judgmental bigots one may say some of that hasn't changed in some people but and he was a neighbor of Imam incessant alcoholic see this is another thing that those

people who think that day and age was like some kind of um I don't know like Taliban kind of era it was never like that people always just had the like people weren't as involved in judging like maybe they judged but they weren't as involved in being able to stop you know like people think and all this it wasn't like that people just did what they did and sure maybe people frowned on it maybe people judge them but they didn't have this like all the you know people would stop you or people would this is back then in the turbine's time

so you've got Imam of hanifa's neighbor was a known drunkard oh garlic and here not only that he would sit out at night time at outside on his kind of ledge he'd sit out at the front of his house and he would sink awaken in him so he'd think like since I'm awake I must keep everyone awake and he would sing and he would often you know what he would sing this uh uh poem that uh

he said that they wasted me they let a guy like me go to ruin like me they let a guy like me go to ruin for what they just wanted me to be a number in an army just to fill a like a gap on a military field like basically they just want some military expansion so we just need people like cannon fodder like we'll just waste them so he says like what he's saying is I'm so much greater than this and these people have wasted they haven't recognized the value in me he

would sing this every night and you are different songs as well but this poetry but this often because well known did Imam of hanifa land at his yard um

drinking alcohols Haram grab him beat him up dude no hanifa used to say everybody should we need to stop change the real monk herbal I mean he's the Imam he's the he's the caliph has been begging him to take up the job as the chief judge this is how much Authority he would wield so how he could easily get get him kind of I'm taught a lesson and what's this

alcohol no neighbor of mine should be drinking alcohol no no you know the neighbor he has so many hokuk in Islam and here to be fair The Neighbors in the wrong because he's oppressing you disturbing your peace he's going out of his he's you know what to be fair if he was to call the local shorter police to say you better shut him up because he's disturbing the peace at night he was in his right to do so because he's a neighbor and it's disturbing but still no Just Smiles and that guy can't stand him up

that guy's like I can't stand these religious folk they're just hypocrites what happens one day this guy gets into trouble with the authorities as often in other trouble would often be not far behind them he gets arrested so what happens is one one night Imam realizes yeah it's awful it's been awfully quiet since the past couple of days where is a how come the neighbors not singing so he thinks you know what in the morning I'll just check up on him he goes to check up the guy's not there

so he asks about he says you know I've not seen him around it's been a few days now they say oh him so yeah he's been taken away by the local the authorities and they've got him in a cell Imam turns up at the local and what would have been there you know like a primitive police station in that day and age not just this is a celebrity of a figure turning up he turns up and the person the local Shruti is like

what the hell what's that they are oh am I in trouble what's going on so he says uh can I help you and he says he says I have come here to ask for a favor he says that what's the favor he says that I hear that such and such has been arrested and they say yeah they say he says over what they say like you know he did some some it wasn't a major issue some kind of delinquency he did and we've banged him up is a waste anyway Imam says he says could you do a favor and release him and allow me to take some responsibility for

him so they're really surprised what the hell that for that guy that guy's just a waste of space of course they say of course you know if you want to take him he could take him but he's it's a waste of space and they release the person and he comes out and he's and as he's walking out he sees Imam and he's absolutely confused what him and Imam says to him

he says a young man photo is a young man he says did we let you go to waste Allah you know honestly this this is it isn't it you know these people legends that they he says to him that did we attack that did we let you go to waste that ass

am Allah but you know that you you do kindness to people it conquers the hearts this person was so he had like an existential profound moment honestly they they say he felt so embarrassed in his way in that that he radically transformed his life

he was so indebted and it just hit him the sincerity and the compassion that yeah this guy came to to save me you know it's like that me like what the hell this guy who I used to always annoy so it's amazing a lie these people you know they these are the Heroes and Legends of Islam that we learn about them in an attempt to to inspire us

and there's a a poem that Assam Allah he says assami these are titles that don't increase them in any in anything like they don't benefit them you know we mention them so we may find some pleasure in it here

it's this is uh honestly there's wow so these were you know the stories of of Imam and there's so many funny stories as well about Imam and I wanted to share it because I thought look yeah he's he passes away in 150 hijri he's buried uh in Baghdad he's buried in Baghdad I believe and there is a um a site that's set up structure a structure um of with his with Imam of hanifa's Tomb this in the same year that he passed his

way Imam is born so you know just a what a thing you know this I'll I'll leave you guys with another little story I don't know whether this one you know some of these stories we see them we don't know how people transmit them we don't know how accurate they are but hey they say that um you know this one time Imam of hanifa was um he was because you know he was working doing his thing and his Imam thing that he used to like have a clinic if you like people would come and

he's doing that and this woman comes in and she takes off her hijab and stuff she comes in like all I mean she's got clothes on but she's taking all her job off and very kind of like um showing how she is you know glamorous here all this kind of so Imam he looks at her and she's very pretty very beautiful and and he says to her that look please you know like put that back on please because obviously because he's the only one there and you know there could be a scandal man this Scandal you I can't handle this candle you know so

he says look don't he says it's please he says he says put it back on and she says no it's important because it's part of what I'm about to ask you she says it's important you can see me and my looks so anyway she sits and she starts talking introducing herself and being very friendly being very polite and very decent and um so she says look uh I've got an issue I she says look I says it's a bit embarrassing but I'd like to say that look I want to get married and uh and she says that I

every time um I'm about to marry my father who she says you notice that at the bottom of the street around the corner whatever there's this gross grocery store this Grocers green crosses so he says yeah they call it bakal in Arabic he says yeah he says she says I'm his daughter so he says oh okay he says look what it is is I I'm going to be honest with you I want to get married I want to but and every time some Suitor comes and asks for Mahan my dad always says let me tell you before because you know you probably

haven't seen her she's uh cross-eyed and she's got learning difficulties and she's uh you know uh what is it I think she's uh she's kind of hunched hunched over or so so basically a bunch of disabilities and and so the guys always go turn away and so I've got nobody to marry and so um so she starts talking says look you know I've reached a certain age and uh so this this is how the story goes so she says to the Imam look

I'll uh if she says look I you know I'd want to get married so she says look if you wouldn't mind would you marry me so he says what this problem man why this so he's you know first he's not she says look come on look out you know this is why I thought it's important that you see me I'm reasonable you know there's nothing wrong you know I can do this I can do that I'm very understanding you know in that day and age as well polygamous

marriages you know days when men were men I have to be careful yeah cancel culture cancer I'm joking I'm joking you know in that day and age where polygamous relationships were more uh the norm so um especially within Muslims environments so uh says look and then he says you know what she says look come on look you know if there's anything wrong you know you can see look I'm I'll serve you I'll do this you know I'm very dis educated I'm like this

so he says look so he thinks about he says he says okay this is fine you know if that's if that's what you want it's just fine he said I don't object I'll take you as a wife so she says okay she says but you've got to come and take you've got to come and propose you know to my father you've got to ask for my hand not here right now like this you come tomorrow or something you know come to the green Grocers and ask for my hand

goes the next day and uh and he says to the green girls that he says look listen he says I've come to ask for your daughter's hand so he says okay he says but you know I better be open with you she's cross-eyed and she's got learning difficulties and she's a bit kind of like I think hunched over and so he says yeah he says

no problem that's not a problem he says okay I so the father's law says look I've accepted and you know you can um you know when do you want to do this knicker so we can do this in a car fine let's exchange so in that day and age they just say look let's get some of these people together we're going to do this uh you know a few Witnesses and he's the Imam and it's known Tikka you know you can um uh you can they would just because marriages were quite simple as this is another thing as well that the more complex you know there's a Hadith that that the um

that the the uh those Nikas that are the most simple have the most Baraka and blessing so in that day and age they were very simple kind of so Tiki he goes they say you know that's your wife's in in this room she's going to be getting ready you can come you know speak to a collectors you can take uh go with so he comes after in the afternoon he comes back and goes in the room the woman in the room is cross-eyed and we'd love it this so if I'm already if it's like what

what who the hell is this he says he goes out and he says to the father that what he says that's that's not your daughter she go he goes that's her I told you you know she's cross-eyed and she's hunched back and she's got these uh I told you that's what and he says no no look there's been this terrible Mission you have a mistake I said look I can't I'm ever so sorry I will you know all these expenses that I said that I would pay you can have that money but uh sorry I can't keep this in the car so he so they say uh okay fine so they just you

know they he says look consider it at the lock but I'll pay for these expenses I'll do all of that that's fine and he goes now a week or two later I love that first woman comes to visit Imam of hanifa again [Laughter] so she comes to see the Imam looks at her and he says you she says aha me and she says how do you feel and he and he says that what that wasn't right what you what you did she goes really and she she says well I hope you feel I did that

to get you back and and he says to get me back for what and she says that look a man came and proposed to our family before and he needed a reference like you know in that day and age people would say I cannot ask any mom and can you ask somebody vouch for you is he a decent guy how is his wealth and she said everything was okay with him but his financial condition was a bit poor a bit poor he wasn't totally important he's a bit poor so he was worried that and he came to

you saying do you remember the case remembered the case that there was a time this man came and he he found a nice match and he was a great guy but he was just a bit poor and the family if he said to them he was a bit poor they would have uh refused the the Nika so he asked Imam of hanifa could you be my witness like could you kind of like vouch for me so Imam said to him that you know he said that they won't marry me because I'm a bit poor and blah blah blah said to him this is what the story goes he said to him okay would you sell a

limb of yours to me right now for twelve thousand dinars if I was to say sell me your hand or your arm or your would you 12 000 doll pieces and the guy said no he said seriously he said no I said good he said don't worry look when can we all go SP you know you get ready for the knicker and he went to see the the people as a reference and he said oh yeah you know yeah I've met the person and they said how is his financial condition he said look you know Allah provides all I can say is the man was offered twelve thousand

Dirhams Dinars for a goal a 12 000 gold pieces for a transaction and he turned it down in front of me that's all I can say so they thought well she must be you know very wealthy you know so they did the nikah so this was the woman that was married to him so she said that to be fair he was a he's a great guy but I felt duped about his financial situation and you you misrepresented it so I wanted you to to get you back on that they say that

said that look you misunderstood me I wasn't trying to misrepresent him I was just trying to help him in getting in the car and I wasn't trying to con someone I was just trying to you know he's a great he's a good person and he had a great heart and he would make a great husband and you shouldn't have just been turned down for money that's all but that story was true but it was a fascinating read I tell you that so guys that was this Legend of an Imam who really just left us so much to think about they say you know when he was asked about Imam Malik what do you think of

him after he met him he went back to Iraq they said what do you think of Imam Malik he says yeah he says blonde he was blonde with blue eyes so he says yes I saw the the blonde-haired blue-eyed boy lad called him a lad like a young lad because he's younger Imam Malik's like at least 12 13 years younger than him he says I saw that here on young blue-eyed blonde-haired lad and then back then blonde hair and blue eye was was a bit

odd because most you know most obviously in the Middle East and that they're not really going to be blonde haired so my Malik was and so it was a bit odd so people always saw it as a like an oddness oddity about it like today I suppose you know maybe with glamor and Hollywood it's got more of a thing to it but back then people didn't really you had no appeal factor to it so yeah that was his uh comment he said yeah he said I met that boy that lad but yeah but there was a great yeah they were you know they had this they left a legacy Allah and they must have live on and you know

they it is something to whichever my type of person chooses but to really learn and it doesn't I suppose the thing about the hanafi mother is is it became very restrictive and controlling some people didn't like you get uh you know like Scholars like shrombul Ali and other people who believed that takleid was still open and you know you don't have to blindly follow but the mother did become quite regimental of especially in the latter centuries you know the last maybe two through 200 300 years whereas some of the other meth have still kept their freedoms I mean

some people became regimental but others it wasn't all like the Maliki madib still kept it's kind of freedoms and stuff as well so but may Allah bless this Legacy and really Inspire us to to learn guys I wanted to share that with you I hope it was uh you know of some of some significance