Different Ways of Presenting Ḥadīth: Why Abū Ḥanīfah Did Not Always Cite the Isnād

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There is, moreover, one method of relating ḥadīth among the muḥaddithūn: حَدَّثَنِي فُلَانٌ عَنْ فُلَانٍ عَنْ فُلَانٍ "So-and-so related to me, from so-and-so, from so-and-so" — and so they continue on. And there is another method — that of the fuqahāʾ, particularly Imam Abū Ḥanīfah — who generally do not proceed this way, that is, they do not say "so-and-so related to me,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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