Abstract:

Abū Ḥanīfa was born in the region of Iraq which had been a cradle of various civilizations, a centre for con-flicts over political and creedal issues, and where ḥadīth concocting was common-place. The fact that he deepened his knowledge in Islamic fields there by receiving basic religious education, he got his ijtihad expertise as being both a learner and a lecturer at fiqh councils and he witnessed the dynamic side of social life by doing trades facilitated him to gain a multifaceted perspective towards matters and contributed to his approach towards practical solutions. He, in the name of understanding what ḥadīths meant, attached weight to reason to provide solutions towards problems arisen because of space and time. His interpreta-tions of them were sometimes regarded as heresy and this situation caused an eruption of extreme allega-tions against him. However, it could be thought that Abū Ḥanīfa seemingly opposed to some ḥadīths nar-rated regarding that specific topic in the issues he consulted ra’y. In contrast, it should not be disregarded that he might have grounded the issues in other narrations while putting forth his arguments. Therefore, both the ḥadīth to which he opposed due to his ra’y while providing solutions towards problems and the narration on which he predicated his argument will be presented together. The identification of these ex-amples will contribute to the review of the assumption that Abū Ḥanīfa approached ḥadīth in a negative way.