The following list consists of biographical compendiums (ṭabaqāt) dedicated to the fuqahā of the Ḥanafī madhhab. In addition, we’ve included biographical works devoted to a single scholar, such as Imām Abū Ḥanīfah or his students. The list is organized in order of the authors’ death dates.

Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfah wa Aṣḥābihi by Abī ʿAbd Allāh Ḥussayn b. Alī al-Ṣaymarī (d. 436/1044)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Abū ʿĀṣim Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī (d. 458)

Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahā by ʿAbd al-Wahhābb. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Fāmī (d. 500)

Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahā by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm al-Hamdānī (d. 521)

Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfah wa Ṣāhibayhi Abū Yūsuf wa Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan by Abī ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1347)

Wafayāt al-Aʿyān min Madhhab al-Nuʿmān by Najm al-Dīn Ibrahīm b. ʿAlī b. Ahmad al-Ṭaraṭūsī (d. 758/1357)

Kitāb fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Muhandisi (d. 769/1367)

al-Jawāhir al-Muḍīyyah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ al-Qurashī (d. 775/1373)

Naẓm al-Jummān fī Ṭabaqāt Aṣḥāb Imāminā al-Nuʿmān by Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrahīm b. Muḥammad al-Qāhirī (d. 809/1406)

al-Mirqāt al-Wafiyyah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah (manuscript 1/manuscript 2) by Majd al-Dīn Abī Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Fayrūzābādī al-Shirāzī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 817/1414)

al-Tadhkirah by Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad Alī b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1441)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad al-Asadī al-Shahbī al-Dimashqī (d. 851)

Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Qāḍī Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad al-ʿAynī (d. 855/1451)

Tāj al-Tarājim fī Tabaqāt al-Hanafiyyah by Abū al-Fidāʾ Zayn al-Dīn Qāsim b. Quṭlūbughā (d. 879/1474)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Khalīl al-Qūnawī (aka Ibn Ajā) (d. 881)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Muḥib al-Dīn Abī al-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Thaqafī al-Ḥalabī, Ibn Shaḥnah al-Ṣaghīr (d. 890/1485)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Sakhāwī (d. 902)

Mukhtaṣar min Manāqib Aʾimmat al-Ḥanafiyyah wa-l-Shāfiʿiyyah by Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. Kamāl, Ibn Kamāl Bāshā (d. 940)

al-Ghuraf al-ʿAliyyah fi Tarājim Mutʾakhkhirī al-Ḥanafiyyah by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad bin Alī b. Aḥmad b. Tūlūn al-Ṣāliḥī al-Dimashqī (d. 953/1546)

Talkhīṣ al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyyah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 956)

al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyyah fi ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawlat al-ʿUthmāniyyah by Aḥmad b. Muṣṭafā b. Khalīl, Ṭashakubrī Zādah (d. 968)

al-Khayrāt al-Ḥisān fī Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān by Ibn Ḥajar al-Makki al-Haythamī/Haytamī (d. 974)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Alī b. Amr Allāh al-Ḥamīdī (Ibn al-Ḥinnāʾī) (d. 979/1572)

Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār min Fuqahāʾ Madhhab al-Nuʿmān al-Mukhtār by Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān al-Kafawī (d. 990)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Qāḍī Khān al-Nahrawānī al-Hindī (d. 990)

Ṭabaqāt al-Sādat al-Ḥanafiyyah by ʿAbd Allāh al-Suwaydī

al-Ṭabaqāt al-Saniyyah fī Tarājim al-Ḥanafiyyah by Taqī al-Dīn b. Abd al-Qādir al-Tamīmī al-Ghazzī (d. 1010/1601)

al-Athmār al-Janiyyah fī Asmāʾ al-Ḥanafiyyah by Mullā Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605)

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by al-Qāḍī Khalīl al-Rūmī, Ṣulāq Zādah (d. 1095)

Muhimmāt al-Fuqahāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah by al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Kāmī b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad al-Rūmī (d. 1136)

Khulāṣat al-Jawāhir fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aʾimmat al-Ḥanafiyyah al-Akābir by ʿAbd al-Salām b. Muḥammad Amīn b. Shams al-Dīn al-Dāghistānī (d. 1202)

al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyyah fī Tarājim al-Ḥanafiyyah by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī (d. 1304/1886)

Nuzhat al-Khawāṭir wa Bahjat al-Masāmiʿ wa al-Nawāẓir (or al-Iʿlām bi man fī Tārīkh al-Hind min al-Aʿlām) by ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Laknawī al-Ḥasanī (d. 1341)

Abū Ḥanīfah wa Aṣḥābuhu by Ḥabīb Aḥmad al-Kīrānawī under supervision of Ashraf ʿAlī al-Tahānawī (d. 1362/1943)

Ḥusn al-Taqāḍī fī Sīrat al-Imām Abī Yūsuf al-Qāḍī by Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1371/1952)

Bulūgh al-Amānī fī Sīrat al-Imām Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī by Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1371/1952)

Lamḥat al-Naẓar fī Sīrat al-Imam Zufar by Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1371/1952)

al-Imtāʿ bi Sīrat al-Imāmayn al-Ḥasan b. Ziyād wa Ṣāḥibihi Muḥammad b. Shujāʿ by Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1371/1952)

al-Ḥāwī fī Sīrat al-Imām Abī Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī by Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1371/1952)

Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān by Wahbī Sulaymān al-Ghāwjī

al-Budūr al-Muḍīyyah fī Tarājim al-Ḥanafiyyah by Muḥammad Hifẓ al-Rahmān al-Kumillāʾī