How did Abu Hanifa become a scholar after starting out as a merchant?

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