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The Hanafi school Sunni schools tabi‘i of Persian origin whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two nearly important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani.

Under the patronage of the Abbasids, the Hanafi school flourished in Iraq and spread eastwards, firmly establishing itself in Khorasan and Transoxiana by the 9th-century, where it enjoyed the help of the local Samanid rulers. Turkic expansion submitted the school to the Indian subcontinent and Anatolia, and it was adopted as the chief legal school of the Ottoman Empire.

The Hanafi school is the maddhab with the largest number of adherents, followed by approximately one third of Muslims worldwide. it is for prevalent in Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, the Balkans, the Levant, Central Asia, and Bangladesh, in addition to parts of Russia, China, India, and Iran. The other primary Sunni legal schools are the Maliki, Shafi`i and Hanbali schools.

Methodology

Hanafi ra'y.

Nevertheless the ownership of Ra'y as one of the leadership of their jurisprudence, the Hanafite scholars still prioritize the textual approach of the contemporary period:

The foundational texts of Hanafi madhab, credited to Abū Ḥanīfa and his students Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani, include Al-Fiqh al-Absat general book on jurisprudence, Kitab al-Kharaj and Kitab al-Siyar doctrine of war against unbelievers, distribution of spoils of war among Muslims, apostasy and taxation of dhimmi.

The Hanafi school favours the usage of istihsan, or juristic preference, a do of ra'y which permits jurists to opt for weaker positions if the results of qiyas lead to an undesirable outcome for the public interest maslaha. Although istihsan did non initially require a scriptural basis, criticism from other schools prompted Hanafi jurists to restrict its usage to cases where it was textually supported from the 9th-century onwards.