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So he grew up, may Allah have mercy upon him; he grew up in seeking knowledge, and Allah gave him intelligence
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So he grew up, may Allah have mercy upon him; he grew up in seeking knowledge, and Allah gave him intelligence
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that was extraordinary. So he grew up in seeking knowledge in the lands of al-Shām
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and in the lands of al-Shām, and his place of upbringing was in Ḥarrān. But when there came
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the Tatars, and they invaded the Muslims and slaughtered the Muslims, his family moved
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from Ḥarrān to Damascus, and for that reason he is called al-Ḥarrānī
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as an attribution to Ḥarrān. So he found the scholars in al-Shām; he studied as a student under them
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and took from their sciences.
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Then indeed Allah gave him
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uprightness, and that he would not take statements as mere transmission; rather
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he would present them to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, following closely
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in that the very path of the four Imāms, may Allah have mercy upon them: Imām Abū Ḥanīfah
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and Imām Mālik and Imām al-Shāfiʿī and Imām Aḥmad. So he follows their way
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in following the evidence, and he does not follow the way
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of the later blind-followers.
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So he would not take a statement except that its evidence had become clear to him from
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the Book and the Sunnah. So he stood, may Allah have mercy upon him, after Allah bestowed upon him abundant
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knowledge at an early age, because he sat for teaching at an
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early age, due to what Allah gave him of abundant knowledge and strength of proof
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and presence of memory, from that which amazed whoever listened to him and attended
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his lessons, as those who wrote his biography mentioned that.