الشرح الميسر على الفقهين الأبسط والأكبر المنسوبين لأبي حنيفة

The book (Fiqh al-Akbar) by Imam Abu Hanifa on issues of the principles of religion is one of the well-known books that many Hanafi scholars took care of, explaining, teaching, and other things. The general commentators have explained it in a way that agrees with the method of the theologians, and the Hanafi scholars have relied on it and decided that it is the doctrine of the Imam, and this is evidenced by the large number of his explanations.

Moreover, this book is relied upon by the Maturidis, and yet they differed from some of its issues, as in the infallibility of the prophets and some issues of attributes and others, it is an argument against them. Moreover, this book in its entirety agrees with what Al-Tahawi decided in explaining the belief of the people of the Sunnah and the group, the famous attributed to Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad Bin Hassan, may God have mercy on them.

The narrator of this book is Hammad bin Abi Hanifa al-Numan bin Thabit al-Kufi, he is the son of al-Musannaf, may God have mercy on him, and he is more knowledgeable about his father’s school of thought than others. We criticize his narration of this book because it is close to his father, and because the scholars transmitted this book, and what we saw in it was in contradiction to what Al-Tahawi decided in his belief, we asserted that he entered it and not from the imam’s words like what came: (God spoke to Moses with his words that have an attribute in eternity. He speaks without a device or a letter) (And our wording of the Qur’an is created) (and there is no distance between Him and His creation) All of this is what the later generations introduced after Abu Hanifa, and this is not known in the words of the predecessors…