Abu Yusuf
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Key facts
- Title
- Head Student of Imam Abu Hanifa
- Born
- 729, Kufa , Umayyad Caliphate
- Died
- 798 (aged 68 – 69) , Baghdad , Abbasid Caliphate
- Nationality
- Caliphate
- Era
- Islamic Golden Age
- Region
- Iraq
- Main interest s
- Islamic Jurisprudence
- Notable idea s
- Evolution of Islamic Jurisprudence
- Notable work s
- Kitab al-Kharaj Ikhtilaf Abi Hanifa wa Ibn Abi Layla
- Religion
- Islam
- Denomination
- Sunni
- Jurisprudence
- Hanafi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Yakub
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Kufa
- Place of death
- Baghdad
- Occupation
- mujtahid
- Position held
- Great Qadi
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Student of
- Shu'ba Ibn al-Ḥajjāj
- Field of work
- fiqh
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- madhhab
- Hanafism
- name in native language
- أبو يوسف
- date of birth
- 0731-00-00
- student
- Hasan bin Ziyad
- P13311
- Éric Serra
- date of death
- 0798-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī (Arabic: يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ, lit. 'Jacob, son of Abraham, the Ansari': ; 729–798), commonly known as Abū Yūsuf (Arabic: أَبُو يُوسُفَ, lit. 'Father of Joseph'), was a prominent Muslim jurist and one of the foremost authorities of the early Hanafi school of Islamic law. He was the leading student of Abu Hanifa and played a decisive role in consolidating, systematizing, and spreading Hanafi jurisprudence throughout the Abbasid Caliphate.
Abū Yūsuf also studied under Malik ibn Anas in Medina, which exposed him to alternative legal methodologies and influenced his juristic reasoning. He was appointed as the first Qadi al-Qudat (Chief Justice) under the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, a position through which he significantly expanded the official adoption of Hanafi law within the state judiciary.
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