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Imam an-Nawawee On Imam Shaafi’ee Established The Madhhab of Ahl ul-Hadeeth

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:47 am
by Shehzad Sattar
Imam an-Nawawee in Tahdheeb al-Asmaa wa’l-Lughaat mentioned under the biography of Imam Shaafi’ee:

“…then he traveled to al-‘Iraq where he spread the knowledge of hadeeth and he established the madhhab of its people – that is the madhhab of the Ahl ul-Hadeeth.”

(Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad ad-Dehlawee al-Madanee, A History of the People of Hadeeth, p.49)