Living ʿIlm – A Reading of the Wasiyya of Imam Abu Hanifa to Qadi Abu Yusuf (Part One)

This seminar consists of a reading and brief study of the parting advice given by one of the great luminaries of the tradition, Imam Abu Hanifa (may Allah Most High be well-pleased with him), to his student Qadi Abu Yusuf. The seminar was delivered at the third annual Hanafi intensive in Leicester (UK) on Sunday 27th July 2025. ------ SPEAKER Shaykh Tabraze Azam is a traditionally-trained educator of the Islamic sciences specialising in Hanafi Sacred Law and Legal Theory. He is the founder and director of the Irshad Centre for Hanafi Studies (https://irshad.org.uk), an educational project which seeks to rigorously train students in the Hanafi tradition, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hanafi Studies (https://johas.org), a peer-reviewed, academic journal which publishes cutting-edge research on an annual basis, and head of operations at Dar al-Imam Abu Hanifa, an Arabic-language publishing house dedicated to the revival of Hanafi texts. The Irshad Centre for Hanafi Studies is an educational initiative specialising in the instruction of the Hanafi tradition. It provides students with an opportunity to study beginner, intermediate and advanced texts in Sacred Law and Legal Theory, and as of 2020, it also offers a full curriculum of study for dedicated students, particularly those with limited time and other commitments. The innovative programme combines the various parts of the Hanafi tradition — fiqh, qawa‘id, usul, hadith, ‘aqida, tafsir — bringing everything together into a coherent and consistent whole. The centre also publishes the Journal of Hanafi Studies (JHS). For more information and to be amongst the first to hear about future events, courses, and publications, visit: https://irshad.org.uk and join the mailing list. FACEBOOK   / irshadcentre   TWITTER   / irshadcentre   INSTAGRAM   / irshadcentrehanafi   *Subscribe to receive the latest videos!*