الموسوعة الحديثية لمرويات الإمام أبي حنيفة

“Imam Abu Hanifah only knew 17 ahadith”
While this heinous lie has been refuted eons ago, Hanafis have resigned themselves to hearing various versions of it being regurgitated regularly.
Now there is no need to verbally refute those peddling these lies. Just hand over this book to them. You would need both hands though; it is in 20 volumes!

This huge 20 volume mawsu'ah is the result of over a decade's work by Ml Latif ar-Rahman Bahraiji of Makkah Mukarramah. After searching manuscript libraries throughout the world, travelling to many far-flung countries, he gathered every work he could find that contained ahadith narrated by Imam Abu Hanifah with asanid. As many of them had never been printed, he then edited them and had them printed.

He then gathered all the ahadith from these works as well as from a huge range of hadith works plus works of fiqh, tarikh, tarajim etc which mention ahadith from sanad.
This mawsu'ah is the fruit of all this hard work, containing over 10000 ahadith with asanid.
Arranged according to fiqhi abwab, it is an utter pleasure to be able to page through the various abwab and see the various ahadith and athar narrated by Imam Sahib on the subject.
The first three volumes cover a detailed biography and defence of Imam Sahib, in addition to various academic discussions. Full of ilmi fawaid.

While Mawlana Latif ar-Rahman carried out this mammoth task, the real engine behind it was Hadrat Mawlana Abd al-Hafiz Makki sahib. Not only was this entire project his idea, he had the compiler stay in his Khanqa, financed the project, arranged for the publication of each of the masanid of Imam Sahib that were completed and would even use his contacts all over the world to help.

I recall receiving a call years ago, from a number I had saved as that of Mawlana Abd al-Hafiz Sahib. Wondering why Hadrat would be calling me, it turned out that he had given his phone to Mawlana Latif ar-Rahman to call me, requesting my assistance in sourcing a manuscript from one of the former Soviet States.

This huge project, that took about 15 years to complete, would insha Allah be sadaqah jariyah for Hadrat Mawlana Abd al-Hafiz sahib, May Allah Ta’ala fill his qabr with Nur.
Amin