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Abu Yusuf
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “student of legist abu hanifah”. Today it says “islamic jurist”.
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Abu Yusuf ( ) (d.798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifah (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the government positions he held. He served as the chief judge ( qadi al-qudat ) during reign of Harun al-Rashid .1 His most famous work was Kitab al-Kharaj , a treatise on taxation and fiscal problems of the state.2
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student of legist abu hanifah
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islamic jurist
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