Better than Imam Abu Hanifah Nu’man ibn Tsabit (r.a.)?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ A preacher in an Amritsar mosque claimed that he was more learned than Imam Abu Hanifah Nu’man ibn Tsabit ( r.a. ) because he remembered more ahadits . This fact was brought to the attention of Mawlana ‘Abd al-Jabbar al-Ghaznawi ( r.a. ), who was his teacher. Mawlana ‘Abd al-Jabbar ( r.a. ) rusticated the offender from his school, and predicted that he would become an apostate. After a week, he became a follower of the deviant, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Someone later asked Mawlana ‘Abd al-Jabbar ( r.a. ), how he knew that that this man, called ‘Abd al-‘Ali would apostatise, he replied. “I was reminded of a hadits , from Swahih al-Bukhari , which Allah ( s.w.t. ) states, ‘I Declare war on the enemies of my friends.’”