Abu Hanifa was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and ascetic, and the founder and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence. The Hanafi school remains the most widely practised of the Sunni schools and is extensively followed and applied throughout the Muslim world, predominating in Central and South Asia, Turkey, Africa, the Balkans, Russia, and parts of the Arab world. September 5, 699 – 767; died at about 67. Alive at the same time as Li Bai, Charlemagne, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, and Jabir ibn Hayyan. Wiki link