* The four classical Sunni schools are, in chronological order: the Hanafi school, the Maliki school, the Shafi ' i school and the Hanbali school.

On the whole, the Hanafi school of jurisprudence could be said to have the most differences with other three schools.

Abu Bakr Al-Jassas ( d. 981 AD / 370 AH ) argued that the two hadiths on killing homosexuals " are not reliable by any means and no legal punishment can be prescribed based on them ", and the Hanafi school held that it does not merit any physical punishment, on the basis of a hadith that " Muslim blood can only be spilled for adultery, apostasy and homicide "; against this the Hanbali school held that sodomy is a form of adultery and must incur the same penalty, i. e. death.

According to the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, the individual who built the mosque has a stronger claim to the title of imam, but this view is not shared by the other schools.

According to the Hanafi and Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, appointment of a prayer leader for Friday service is mandatory because otherwise the prayer is invalid.

In Islam, the Shafi ' i, Maliki and Hanbali schools allow it, while the Hanafi school does not allow it in Sunni Islam.

They follow any one of the four ; Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi, Imam Malik, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, but they primarily follow Hanafi school of fiqh.

An estimated 80-89 % of the population practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school while 10-19 % are Shi ' a, majority of the Shia follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis.

It may only be performed in congregation ( Jama ’ at ) and has an additional extra six Takbirs ( raising of the hands to the ears while saying " Allahu Akbar " is Great ), three of them in the beginning of the first raka ' ah and three of them just before ruku ' in the second raka ' ah in the Hanafi school.

Burmese Muslims predominantly follow the Hanafi school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam.

However, the idea was first suggested by the early Sunni Muslim jurist Imam Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of Fiqh.

The Hanafi school of thought, which is followed by most Muslims in the world, agree that the feet are not part of the awrah and therefore may be revealed.

The Hanafi ( ) school is one of the four Madhhabs ( schools of law ) in jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) within Sunni Islam.

Among the four established Sunni schools of legal thought in Islam, the Hanafi school is one of the oldest and by far, the largest in parts of the world.

The Hanafi school also has many followers among the four major Sunni schools.

As such, the influence of the Hanafi school is still widespread in the former lands of these empires.

Today, the Hanafi school is predominant in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, China as well as in Mauritius, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, North Caucasus Republics, Russia, Crimea peninsula in Ukraine and Uyghuristan ( Xinjiang ) in China.

Hanafi ( grass green ) is the Sunni school predominant in Turkey, the Northern Middle East, many parts of Egypt, Central Asia and most of the Indian subcontinent

As the fourth Caliph, ' Ali, had transferred the Islamic capital to Kufa, and many of the companions of the Prophet had settled there, the Hanafi School had based many of its rulings on Prophetic narrations ( Hadith ) transmitted by companions residing in Iraq, thus it came to be known as the Kufan or Iraqi school in earlier times.

Ibn Khaldun, on the other hand, defined the Sunni schools as three: the Hanafi school, the Zahiri school, and a broader, middle school encompassing the Shafi ' i, Maliki and Hanbali schools.

One of the most powerful Chief Eunuchs was Beshir Agha who played a crucial role in establishing the Ottoman version of Hanafi Islam throughout the Empire by founding libraries and schools.

On March 9, 1977, when, in what was at the time one of the worst terror attacks in America, seven members of the Hanafi Muslim sect took over the B ' nai B ' rith headquarters, the Islamic Center and Washington, D. C .' s city hall.

While serving on the D. C. city council, Barry was shot on March 9, 1977, by radical Hanafi Muslims ( from a breakaway sect of the Nation of Islam ) when they overran the District Building.

Barry was shot near his heart during the two-day 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege in which hostages were held by the terrorists and which was finally defused by the FBI and Muslim ambassadors.

It is said that Sunni Islam was initially split into six schools ( Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi ' i, Hanbali, Zahiri, Jariri ) before various ruling dynasties later narrowed the number down to four, with the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt eventually creating four independent judicial positions, thus solidifying the Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi ' i and Hanbali schools.

The pedagogical philosophy of Deoband was focused on teaching revealed Islamic sciences, known as Manqulat, to the Indian Muslim population, according to the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence.

It was widely reported that Sharia law is not specifically mentioned, but Hanafi jurisprudence is one of the six branches of Sharia law.

Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( Persian: نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان ), better known as Imām Abū Ḥanīfah, ( 699 — 767 CE / 80 — 148 AH ) was the founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of fiqh ( Islamic jurisprudence ).

During that time, he was so well-liked by viewers that when Hanafi Muslims took hostages at the B ' nai B ' rith building in Washington they would speak only with Robinson.

# The pro-Georgian direction: Georgian historiography has traditionally argued that the Meskhetian Turks, who speak the Kars dialect of the Turkish language and belong to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, are simply Turkified Georgians converted to Islam in the period between the sixteenth century and 1829 when the region of Meskheti-Dzhavakheti was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, the Sheikh Hanafi Mosque, Eritrea's oldest mosque, was built on Massawa Island, along with several other works of early Islamic architecture both in and around Massawa ( including the Dahlak Archipelago and the Zula peninsula ).

Hanafi was born into an artistic family in Cairo.

There was a fatwa, an Islamic opinion issued by Islamic scholars that condemned Hanafi as an apostate.

This has raised controversy in Egypt, as many liberals disagreed with the charge that Hanafi was an apostate.

Although a Sunni Hanafi, Hujwiri's theology was reconciled with the concept of Sufi annihilation.

Ahmed Raza Khan Fazil-e-Barelvi (, ) ( 1856 – 1921 CE ), popularly known as Aala Hazrat, was a Sunni Hanafi scholar whose works influenced the Barelvi movement of South Asia.

By far the most well-known act of crime that the Black Mafia carried out, the Hanafi Murders was what gained them national media attention.

The site of this crime was Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's, house in Washington D. C. On January 18, 1973, the mafia murdered 7 Hanafi Muslims.

The intended target of this crime was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, of the Hanafi Muslims, for a letter he had written to the Black Muslims claiming that Elijah Muhammad was a false prophet and that certain members of Elijah Muhammad's NOI were merely gangsters who were harming the name of Islam.

In the context of Islamic Law Imam Malik and the Hanafi scholars are assumed to have differentiated between the two: for example Imam Malik is said to have rejected some traditions that reached him because, according to him, they were against the " established practice of the people of Medina ".

Deobandi (, ) is a term used for a revivalist movement in Sunni Islam ( Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama ' ah ) under the Hanafi School.

" Hanafi methodology involved the logical process of examining the Book and all available knowledge of the Sunna and then finding an example in them analogous to the particular case under review so that Allah's deen could be properly applied in the new situation.

He studied under various famed scholars including Hisham ibn Urwah, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, and — along with Imam Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Hanafi Sunni Madh ' hab -- and under the household of the prophets lineage, Imam Jafar al Sadiq This fact may explain the mutual respect and relative peace that has often existed between the Hanafi and Maliki Sunnis, on one hand, and the Shias on the other.

He started learning jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) under the celebrated Hanafi judge, Abu Yusuf, the renowned student and companion of Imam Abu Hanifah.

Al-Qassam also followed the Hanafi school of jurisprudence ( fiqh ) and studied at the Istambuli Mosque under the teaching of well-known ' alim (" scholar ") Sheikh Salim Tayarah.

Through zealous missionary work as many as 30, 000 tents of Turks came to profess Islam and later under the Ghaznavids more than 55, 000 under the Hanafi school of thought.

Although the Afghan court, under international pressure, notably including that from the Bush administration, turned over the case to prosecutors on March 26 and released Rahman on March 27, the arrest exhibited a lingering conflict between the Constitution of Afghanistan's recognition of freedom of religion, albeit limited, and its inclusion of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which stipulates the death penalty for apostasy.

:... the Ulama scholars of the four Mathhabs ( Maliki, Hanafi, Shaffie and Hanbali ), the Muhadditheen, and the Tafseer commentators Muslim commentators of the Qur ' an, are agreed that in all Islamic ages, Jihad under this condition becomes Fard Ayn religious obligation upon the Muslims of the land which the Kuffar have attacked and upon the Muslims close by, where the children will march forth without the permission of the parents, the wife without the permission of her husband and the debtor without the permission of the creditor.