The author
Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi (239–321 AH) of Egypt, a Hanafi jurist and hadith scholar trained by his uncle al-Muzani, a student of al-Shafi'i.
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العقيدة الطحاوية
Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya
Imam Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi · d. 321 AH · Hanafi · Creed
1 short treatise
Introduction
How it came about
Written as a statement of the creed of Abu Hanifa and his two companions, in a period of intense theological dispute.
Method and structure
A sequence of short declarative articles on God, prophethood, the Quran, divine decree, the afterlife and the community, without dialectic.
Standing in the school
Accepted across the Sunni schools as a summary of orthodox belief and commented on by Ibn Abi al-Izz and many later scholars.
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