A Chronological List of Prominent Hanafi Jurists – English

A Chronological List of Prominent Hanafi Jurists

The importance of knowing the dates of birth/death of the scholars cannot be stressed enough. For one, it saves a researcher from obvious blunders and inaccurate referencing. Many a times, several scholars or books share the same name but are from entirely different eras. Thus, when a scholar like Ibn ‘Ābidīn quotes “al-Lubāb,” for example, it is obvious that he is referring to a book other than that of his student, ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Ghunaymī.

The following is a chart of the names, birth/death dates, and works of major Hanafī jurists, starting from the Imām of the Madhhab until the jurists of the present century. In this chart, we have sufficed on the relatively prominent jurists, as otherwise, there would be no end to the list. Many other Hanafī scholars could have been added, but were omitted due to their prominence in fields besides Fiqh. Wherever possible, both the dates of birth and death were mentioned. Otherwise, only the date of death is mentioned, preceded by the abbreviation, “d.” When an approximate date is mentioned, it is preceded by “ca.” (circa). The abbreviation “p.” means “post.”

It should be noted that the purpose of this chart is to serve as an easy reference for those searching for the names and birth/death dates of major Hanafī jurists. Those who are interested in detailed biographical entries of these jurists should refer to the relevant works, such as Tarīkh Baghdād of al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī, al-Jawāhir al-Mudiyyah of al-Qurashī, Tāj al-Tarājim of Qāsim ibn Qutlūbughā, al-Fawā’id al-Bahiyyah of al-Laknawī, and al-A‘lām of al-Ziriklī etc. The references for each entry alongside additional information is provided in the Arabic chart. I would like to extend my gratitude to all those who have assisted me in compiling this list, in particular my beloved teacher Mufti Husain Kadodia and my fellow colleague Mufti Zameelur Rahman. Readers are requested to notify the compiler of any errors or necessary changes.

Muntasir Zaman

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Jurist	Work/s	Date (AH)
SECOND CENTURY
Abū Hanīfah al-Nu‘mān ibn Thābit	Kitāb al-Āthār	80-150
Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn Ibrāhīm	Al-Amālī/Kitāb al-Kharāj	113-182
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybānī	Al-Asl, al-Jāmi‘ al-Saghīr/al-Kabīr, al-Ziyādāt, al-Siyar al-Kabīr	132-189
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl		110-158
THIRD CENTURY
Al-Hasan ibn Ziyād al-Lu’lu’ī	Al-Mujarrad	d. 204
Abū Sulaymān Mūsā al-Jūzajānī	Nawādir Abī Sulaymān	d. p. 200
Mu‘allā ibn Mansūr al-Rāzī	Nawādir Mu‘āllā ibn Mansūr	ca. 150-211
Abū Hafs al-Kabīr al-Bukhārī		150-217
‘Īsā ibn Abān	Al-Hujaj al-Saghīr/ al-Hujaj al-Kabīr	d. 221
Muhammad ibn Samā‘ah al-Tamīmī	Kitāb Adab al-Qādī	130-233
Ahmad ibn ‘Amr al-Khassāf	Kitāb Ahkām al-Awqāf	ca. 185-261
Muhammad ibn Shujā‘ al-Thaljī	Kitāb al-Manāsik	181-266
FOURTH CENTURY
Abū Ja‘far Ahmad al-Tahāwī	Sharh Ma‘ānī al-Āthār/al-Mukhtasar	239-321
Abū Mansūr al-Māturīdī	Kitāb al-Tawhīd/ Ta’wīlāt Ahl al-Sunnah	d. 333
Muhammad al-Hākim al-Shahīd	Al-Kāfī (Mukhatsar al-Asl)	d. 334
Abu ‘l-Hasan al-Karkhī	Mukhtasar al-Karkhī	260-340
Abū Bakr al-Jassās al-Rāzī	Ahkām al-Qur’ān, Sharh Mukhtasar al-Tahāwī	305-370
Abū Ja‘far al-Hiduwānī	Sharh al-Jāmi‘ al-Saghīr	300-362
Abu ‘l-Layth al-Samarqandi (al-Faqīh)	Al-Nawāzil/‘Uyūn al-Masā’il	d. 373
FIFTH CENTURY
Abu ‘l-Husayn Ahmad al-Qudūrī	Mukhtasar al-Qudūrī/al-Tajrīd	362-428
Abū Zayd ‘Ubayd Allāh al-Dabūsī	Taqwīm al-Adillah	367-430
Abu ‘l-‘Abbās Ahmad al-Nātifī	Kitāb Jumal al-Ahkām/al-Wāqi‘āt	d. 446
Shams al-A’immah al-Halwānī	Al-Mabsūt	d. 448
Abu ‘l-Hasan ‘Alī al-Sughdī	Al-Nutaf fī ‘l-Fatāwā	d. 461
Abū Nasr Ahmad al-Aqta‘	Sharh Mukhtasar al-Qudūrī	d. 474
Al-Qādī Ahmad ibn Mansūr al-Isbījābī	Sharh al-Jāmi‘ al-Saghīr	d. 480
Fakhr al-Islām ‘Alī al-Bazdawī	‘Usūl al-Bazdawī	ca. 400-482
Shaykh al-Islām Khuwāhar Zādah	Al-Mabsūt	d. 483
Shams al-A’immah al-Sarakhsī	Al-Mabsūt/Sharh al-Siyar al-Kabīr	d. ca. 490
SIXTH CENTURY
Zahīr al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī al-Kabīr		d. 506
Shaykh al-Islām ‘Alī al-Isbījābī	Sharh Mukhtasar al-Tahāwī	454-535
Husām al-Dīn al-Sadr al-Shahīd	Al-Wāqi‘āt/Sharh Adab al-Qādī	483-536
Najm al-Dīn ‘Umar al-Nasafī	Talabah al-Talabah	461-537
‘Alā’ al-Dīn Muhammad al-Samarqandī	Tuhfat al-Fuqahā’	d. 539
Jār Allāh Mahmūd al-Zamakhsharī	Ru’ūs al-Masā’il	467-538
Abu ‘l-Fath ‘Abd al-Rashīd al-Walwālijī	Al-Fatāwā al-Walwālijiyyah	467- p. 540
Ahmad ibn Mūsā al-Kashshī	Majmū‘ al-Nawāzil	d. ca. 550
Nāsir al-Dīn Muhammad al-Samarqandī	Al-Fiqh al-Nāfi‘/al-Multaqat	d. 556
Rukn al-Dīn al-Kirānī	Jawāhir al-Fatāwā	d. 565
Sirāj al-Dīn ‘Alī al-Ūshī	Al-Fatāwā al-Sirājiyyah, Bad’ al-Amālī	d. p. 569
Abu ‘l-Mużżaffar As‘ad al-Karābīsī	Al-Furūq	d. 570
Radī al-Dīn Muhammad al-Sarakhsī	Al-Muhīt al-Ridawī	d. 571
Abū Nasr Ahmad al-‘Attābī	Al-Fatāwā al-‘Attābiyyah/Sharh al-Ziyādāt	d. 586
Abū Bakr ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāsānī	Badā’i‘ al-Sanā’i‘	d. 587
Hasan ibn Mansūr QādīKhān	Fatāwā QādīKhān	d. 592
‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī	Al-Hidāyāh/al-Tajnīs	d. 593
Jamāl al-Dīn Ahmad al-Ghaznawī	Al-Hāwī al-Qudsī	d. 593
Husām al-Dīn ‘Alī al-Rāzī	Khulāsat al-Dalā’il fī Tanqīh al-Masā’il	d. 598
SEVENTH CENTURY
Tāhir ibn Ahmad al-Bukhārī	Khulāsat al-Fatāwā	d. p. 600
Burhān al-Dīn Mahmūd al-Bukhārī	Al-Muhīt al-Burhānī/al-Dhakhīrah al-Burhāniyyah	d. 616
Zahīr al-Dīn Muhammad al-Bukhārī	Al-Fatāwā al-Zahīriyyah	d. 619
Majd al-Dīn Muhammad al-Usrūshnī	Al-Fusūl	d. 633
Shams al-A’immah al-Kardarī	Sharh al-Muntakhab al-Husāmī	559-642
‘Abd al-Rahīm Hafīd Sahib al-Hidāyāh	Fusūl al-‘Imādi	d. p. 651
‘Alā’ al-Dīn al-Tarjumānī	Yatīmat al-Dahr	d. 654
Najm al-Dīn Mukhtār al-Zāhidī	Al-Qunyah/al-Hāwī/al-Mujtabā	d. 658
Zayn al-Dīn Muhammad al-Rāzī	Tuhfat al-Mulūk	610- p.666
Tāj al-Sharī‘ah Mahmūd ibn Ahmad	Al-Wiqāyah	d. 673
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Karlānī	Al-Kifāyah (Sharh al-Hidāyah)	d. 676
Abu ‘l-Fadl ‘Abd Allāh al-Mawsilī	Al-Mukhtār li ‘l-Fatwā/al-Ikhtiyār	599-683
Mużżaffar al-Dīn Ahmad-Ibn al-Sā‘ātī	Majma‘ al-Bahrayn	d. 694
EIGHTH CENTURY
‘Umar ibn Muhammad al-Sunnāmī	Nisāb al-Ihtisāb/al-Fatāwā al-Diyā’iyyah	First half of 7th century-first quarter of 8th century
Dāwūd ibn Yūsuf al-Khatīb	Al-Fatāwā al-Ghiyāthiyya	First half of 8th century
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Kāshgharī	Munyat al-Musallī	d. 705
Hāfiż al-Dīn Abu ‘l-Barakāt al-Nasafī	Al-Manār/Kanz al-Daqā’iq/al-Kāfī	ca. 620- 710
Abu ‘l-‘Abbās Ahmad al-Sarūjī	Al-Ghāyah (Sharh al-Hidāyah)	637-710
Husām al-Dīn Husayn al-Sighnāqī	Al-Nihāyah/al-Kāfī Sharh Usūl al-Bazdawī	d. ca. 714
Fakhr al-Dīn ‘Uthmān al-Zayla‘ī	Tabyīn al-Haqā’iq	d. 743
Sadr al-Sharī‘ah ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Masū‘d	Sharh al-Wiqāyah/al-Nuqāyah	d. 745 or 747
Qiwām al-Dīn Muhammad al-Kākī	Mi‘rāj al-Dirāyah	d. 749
Amīr Kātib al-Itqānī	Ghāyat al-Bayān/al-Shāmil	685-758
Ibrahīn ibn ‘Alī al-Tarasūsī	Anfa‘ al-Wasā’il (al-Fatawā al-Tarasusiyya)	721-758
Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Zayla‘ī	Nasb al-Rāyah	d. 762
‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Ahmad-Ibn Wahbān	Manżūmat Ibn Wahbān	728-768
Tāhir ibn Islām al-Khāwrzamī	Jawāhir al-Fiqh	d. p. 771
Sirāj al-Dīn ‘Umar al-Ghaznawī al-Hindī	Zubdat al-Ahkām	ca. 704-773
‘Ālim ibn al-‘Alā’ al-Andarpatī	Al-Fatāwā al-Tātarkhāniyyah	d. 786
Akmal al-Dīn Muhammad al-Bābartī	Al-‘Ināyah/al-Taqrīr	ca. 710-786
Shams al-Dīn Muhammad al-Qūnawī	Durar al-Bihār/Sharh Majma‘ al-Bahrayn	d. 788
NINTH CENTURY
Abū Bakr ibn ‘Alī al-Haddād	Al-Sirāj al-Wahhāj/al-Jawharah al-Nayyirah	720-800
‘Abd al-Latīf- Ibn Malak	Sharh al-Manār	d. 801
Mahmūd ibn Isrā’īl-Ibn Qādī Samāwna	Jāmi‘ al-Fusūlayn/Latā’if al-Ishārāt	d. 818 or 823
Muhammad al-Bazzāzī al-Kardarī	Al-Fatāwā al-Bazzāziyyah	d. 827
Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Hafs ‘Umar Qāri’ al-Hidāyah	Fatāwā Qāri’ al-Hidāyah	ca. 750-829
Abu ‘l-Hasan ‘Alī al-Tarabulusī	Mu‘īn al-Hukkām	d. 844
Abu ‘l-Baqā’ Muhammad- Ibn al-Diyā’	Al-Bahr al-‘Amīq/Tārīkh Makkah	789-854
Badr al-Dīn Mahmūd al-‘Aynī	Al-Bināyah/Ramz al-Haqā’iq	762-855
Kamāl al-Dīn- Ibn al-Humām	Fath al-Qadīr/Zād al-Faqīr	788-861
Abu ‘l-Fidā’ Qāsim ibn Qutlūbughā	Al-Tashīh wa al-Tarjīh/Munyat al-Alma‘ī	802-879
Shams al-Dīn- Ibn Amīr Hājj	Halabat al-Mujallī/al-Taqrīr wa al-Tahbīr	825-879
Muhammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusrū	Ghurar al-Ahkām/Durar al-Hukkām	d. 885
TENTH CENTURY
Sarī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Barr-Ibn Shihnah	Sharh Manżūmat Ibn Wahbān	851-921
Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Tārbulusī	Al-Is‘āf lī Ahkām al-Awqāf	d. 853-922
Ahmad ibn Sulaymān- Ibn Kamāl Pāshā	Al-Īdāh fī Sharh al-Islāh	d. 940
Ahmad ibn Yūnus Ibn al-Shilbī	Hashiyat Tabyīn al-Haqā’iq	d. 947
Shams al-Dīn Muhammad al-Quhustānī	Jāmi‘ al-Rumūz/Jāmi‘ al-Mabānī	d. ca. 950
Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad al-Halabī	Multāqa ‘l-Abhur/Ghunyat al-Mutamallī	d. 956
Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm- Ibn al-Nujaym	Al-Bahr al-Rā’iq/al-Ashbāh wa al-Nżā’ir	d. 970
Muhammad ibn Bīr ‘Ali al-Birgawī	Al-Tarīqah al-Muhammadiyyah	929-981
Muhammad al-Mawlā Abū al-Su‘ūd	Tafsīr Abī al-Su‘ūd	898-982
Sinān al-Dīn Yūsuf al-Amāsī	Tabyīn al-Mahārīm	893-986
Ahmad ibn Mahmūd Qādī Zādah	Natā’ij al-Afkār (Takmilah Fath al-Qadīr)	d. 988
Rahmat Allāh al-Sindī	Lubāb al-Manāsik	ca. 933-993
ELEVENTH CENTURY
Sirāj al-Dīn ‘Umar ibn Ibrāhīm-Ibn Nujaym	Al-Nahr al-Fā’iq	d. 1005
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Tumurtāshī al-Ghazzī	Tanwīr al-Absār/Mus‘ifat al-Hukkām	939- ca. 1007
Alī ibn Sultān Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī	Fath Bāb al-‘Ināyah/Mirqāt al-Mafātīh	d. 1014
Abū Muhammad al-Baghdādī	Majma‘ al-Damānāt	d. ca. 1030
Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī	Al-Ahkām (Sharh Durar al-Hukkām)	1017-1062
Abu ‘l-Ikhlās Hasan al-Shurunbulālī	Nūr al-Idāh/al-Ghunyah Hāshiyah ‘ala l-Durar	994-1069
‘Abd al-Rahmān-Shaykhī Zādah-al-Dāmād	Majma‘ al-Anhur	d. 1078
Khayr al-Dīn ibn Ahamd al-Ramlī	Al-Fatāwā al-Khayriyyah	993-1081
‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf Qadrī Afandī	Wāqi‘āt al-Muftīn	1014-1083
Niżām al-Dīn al-Burhānfūrī & other scholars	Al-Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyyah                                      (compiled 1077-1086)
‘Alā’ al-Dīn Muhammad al-Haskafī	Al-Durr al-Mukhtār/al-Durr al-Muntaqā	1025-1088
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Hamawī	Ghamz ‘Uyūn al-Basā’ir	d. 1098
Shaykh al-Islām Muhammad al-Anqarawī	Al-Fatāwā al-Anqarawiyyah	ca. 1028-1098
Ibrāhim ibn Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Bīrī	‘Umdat Dhawī al-Basā’ir	1023-1099
TWELFTH CENTURY
As‘ad ibn Abī Bakr al-Uskudārī al-Madanī	Al-Fatāwā al-As‘adiyyah	1050-1116
‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl al-Nablusī	Nihāyat al-Murād/al-Jawhar al-Kalī	1050-1143
Abū al-Su‘ūd al-Azharī	Fath Allāh al-Mu‘īn	d. 1172
Abū Sa‘īd Muhammad al-Khādimī	Al-Barīqah al-Mahmūdiyyah	1113-1176
Muhmmad Hāshim al-Tatawī	Fākihat al-Bustān	1104-1174
Ibrāhīm ibn Mustafā al-Madhārī al-Halabī	Tuhfat al-Akhyār	d. 1190
Mustafā ibn Muhammad al-Tā’ī	Tawfīq al-Rahmān	1138-1192
THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahtāwī	Hāshiyat al-Tahtāwī ‘alā al-Durr	d. 1231
Muhammad Amīn- Ibn ‘Ābidīn al-Shāmī	Rad al-Muhtār/al-’Uqūd al-durriyyah	1198-1252
Muhammad ‘Ābid al-Sindī al-Madanī	Tawāli‘ al-Anwār	1190-1257
’Abd al-Ghanī al-Ghunaymī al-Maydīnī	Al-Lubāb fī Sharh al-Kitāb	1222-1298
FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Abu ‘l-Hasanāt ‘Abd al-Hayy al-Laknawī	‘Umdat al-Ri‘āyah/al-Si‘āyah	1264-1304
Shīhāb al-Dīn al-Marjānī	Nāżūrat al-Haqq	1233-1306
‘Alā’ al-Dīn Muhammad Ibn ‘Ābidīn	Al-Hadiyyah al-‘Alā’iyyah	1244-1306
Muhammad al-‘Abbāsī al-Mahdī	Al-Fatāwā al-Mahdiyyah	1243-1315
Muhammad Kāmil al-Tarabulsī	Al-Fatāwā al-Kāmiliyyah	1244-1315
Amīn ‘Alī Haydar Afandī	Durar al-Hukkām (Sharh al-Majallah)	d. 1321
Rashīd Ahmad Gangohī	Fatāwa Rashīdiyyah	1244-1323
‘Abd al-Qādir al-Rāfi‘ī	Taqrīr ‘alā al-Durr al-Mukhtār	1248-1323
Muhammad Khālid al-Atāsī	Sharh Majjalat al-Ahkām	1253-1326
‘Azīzur Rahmān ‘Uthmānī	‘Azīz al-Fatāwā	1275-1347
Khalīl ibn ‘Abd al-Qādir Al-Nahlāwī	Al-Durar al-Mubāhah	d. 1350
Muhammad Bakhīt al-Mutī‘ī	Fatāwā Bakhīt al-Mutī‘ī	1271-1354
Ahmad ibn Muhammad Zarqā	Sharh Qawā‘id al-Fiqhiyyah	1285-1357
Afhraf ‘Alī Thānawī	Imdād al-Fatāwā	1280-1362
Kifāyatullāh Dehlawī	Kifāyat al-Muftī	1292-1372
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Kurdī	Al-Fatāwā al-Halabiyyah	1297-1373
Zafar Ahmad ‘Uthmānī	Imadād al-Ahkām/I‘lā’ al-Sunan	1310-1394
Muhammad Shafī‘ Deobandī	Jawāhir al-Fiqh, Imdād al-Muftīn	1314-1396
FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Mahmūd Hasan Gangohī	Fatāwā Mahmūdiyyah	1325-1417
Niżāmud Dīn A‘żamī	Niżām al-Fatāwā	1328-1420
‘Abdur Rahīm Lajpūrī	Fatāwā Rahīmiyyah	1321-1422
Rashīd Ahmad Ludhyānwī	Ahsan al-Fatāwā	1341–1422