The History of Abil Hanifa

People actually knew each other, didn't they? I mean, there was a personal collection between all of them. There's not polemic, that's the wrong word, but there's wanting your man to be top sort of things. So you have that period of, let's keep it simple, let's say from 100, the year 100, through to the year 200. That is if you like the formative period of Islamic law. And in the next century after that, that's when you get the Bukhari, the Muslim, the Tiramadi, the Nasei, and all the other Hadith collections.