Imaam Abu Hanifa (RAH) 100 Qissay. Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān b. Thābit b. Zūṭā b. Marzubān known as Abū Ḥanīfa for short, or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Muslims, was an 8th-century Iraqi Sunni Muslim theologian and jurist, who became the eponymous founder of the Hanafi school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence. Imam Abu Hanifah benefited from nearly 4000 Sheikhs.