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Contributions of Imam Abu Hanifa to the development of Fiqh.
(i) He established a committee of scholars from among his best students charged with the task of compiling ?qh-based questions and the answers he gave under different heading such a taharah, salat e.t.c.
(ii) He codified fiqh into relevant chapters for easy reference.
(iii) He devised a series of principles from which to derive the rules of fiqh which came to be known as Usul-al-fiqh.
(iv) He accepted the sources of law as being the Quran, Sunnah, Ijma ad Qiyas.
(v) He developed the principle of Istihsan (provision made in public interest) as a subsidiary source of Shariah.
(vi) He taught many students such as Imam Muhammad and Abu Yusuf as-Shaybatic, who commented upon and expounded further on the jurisprudence of their teacher.
(vii) He founded the Hanafi school of law-the first of its kind in the Muslim world.
(viii) He tried to make fiqh as easy and applicable as possible to day-today life.
(ix) He divided his fiqh into two categories, namely those dealing with canonical laws that were fixed and those dealing with non canonical laws (i.e. dealing with customary practices that could change with time and place).
(X) He is the author of al-Musnad - a major work on hadith that deals with aspects of jurisprudence and ibadah.
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