Join us for an amazing 2-part webinar series exploring the life and contributions of the 4 great Sunni Imams; Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam MalikHe studied under various famed scholars including Hisham ibn Urwah and Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. Both Malik and al Zuhri were student to Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar, prestigious Tabi'un Imam and ex slave of Abdullah ibn Umar.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Malik_ibn_Anas
We start with the first Imam, Abu Hanifa Al-Noman. Born in 699 AD in Kufa, Iraq, to a silk merchant, Selman Faiad states in his book The Four Imams, "when Abu Hanifa's father met Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb, he offered Imam Ali some candy, which was a delicacy, in celebration of the Persian festival of Al-Nairouz.
For Sunni Muslims, an Imam is typically the name given to the leader of worship in a mosque. These Imams would lead worship services and prayers, as well as serve as leaders in the community. Sunni Imams also take on the role of providing religious guidance to those in need of it.
The Four Imams: Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi'ee, Imam Ahmad ibn Hambal. Nu'man bin Thabit ibn Zauti,- well known in Islamic History as 'Imam Abu Hanifa' and 'Imam Azam' - was the son of a Persian merchant.
The major Sunni Madhhab are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE and by the twelfth century almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab. These four schools recognize each other's validity and they have interacted in legal debate over the centuries.
The Hanafi school (Arabic: حَنَفِية, romanized: Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools (maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh).
Sharia based on Maliki doctrine is predominantly found in North Africa (excluding northern and eastern Egypt), West Africa, Chad, Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirate of Dubai (UAE), and in northeastern parts of Saudi Arabia.
Sunnis do not support the Imam and do not believe in a birthright or privileged class of leaders. They believe that leadership and trust is given and taken by the people. In addition to differences in leadership, Sunnis and Shi'a Muslims differ on their traditions and religious practices as well.
Shi'a Muslims believe that imams are leaders appointed by God to be Muhammad's successors. Shi'a Muslims believe that imams are inspired by God, are without sin and are infallible, which means that they can interpret the teachings of the Qur'an without making any errors.
Some followers call him al-Imām al-Aʿẓam ("The Greatest Imam") and Sirāj al-Aʾimma ("The Lamp of the Imams") in Sunni Islam. Born to a Muslim family in Kufa, Abu Hanifa is known to have travelled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in Mecca and Medina.
While it's a common practice in Islamic and Western nations for the two to pray together, the practice is unheard of in the India subcontinent and completely out of the question in Lucknow.
Generally, the sects of Shia Islam differ from one another in the number of Imams they recognize to be legitimate, who they recognize those Imams to be, and what role those Imams possess. Most Shia sects share the first four Imams: 1) Ali ibn Abu Talib, 2) Hassan ibn Ali, 3) Husayn ibn Ali, and 4) Zayn al-Abidin.
Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam.
According to Twelver theology, the Twelve Imams are exemplary human individuals who not only rule over the community with justice, but also are able to keep and interpret sharia and the esoteric meaning of the Quran.
The Hanbali school, unlike Hanafi and Maliki schools, rejected that a source of Islamic law can be a jurist's personal discretionary opinion or consensus of later generation Muslims on matters that serve the interest of Islam and community. Hanbalis hold that this is impossible and leads to abuse.
Historically, certain sects have considered it acceptable for women to function as imams. This was true not only in the Arab heartland of early Islam, but in China over recent centuries, where women's mosques developed.
11.5c If someone has has already prayed he cannot be Imam
[Anyone who has prayed an obligatory prayer alone or in a group, as Imam or following, cannot lead that prayer which he repeats.
The divide originated with a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic faith he introduced. Today, about 85 percent of the approximately 1.6 billion Muslims around the world are Sunni, while 15 percent are Shia, according to an estimate by the Council on Foreign Relations.
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; c. 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam ( r. 656–661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam.
They have different beliefs about Imams
In Sunni Islam, Imams are viewed as saints, and they are required to have a strong faith in the Quran and Sunnah in order to be appointed. However, in Shia Islam, Imams are only appointed by God. In Shia Islam, Imams are also the only legitimate interpreters of the Quran.
Divisive practice. But in a region where politics and religion are seldom separate entities, the practice is undeniably divisive. Sunni Muslims, along with many other Shia, consider it haram or forbidden in Islam because it constitutes a form of self-harm. In Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fatwa against it.
With respect to family and personal law issues, Hanafi fiqh predominates in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, and, for significant minority populations, in Iran and Malaysia.
The Hanafi is in western Asia, the Shafi`i in Southeast Asia and the Hanbali (the most conservative) is found primarily in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states.
Examples of the former include Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, while Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates are among those that apply Islamic law in personal but not civil or criminal matters. In Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, among others, it is forbidden to enact legislation that is antithetical to Islam.