Who Was Alive

Abū Ḥanīfa

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

Born 5 September AD 699 · died AD 766–767, aged 67 or 68

Who was alive at the same time as Abū Ḥanīfa?

  1. Abū Ḥanīfa
  2. Li Bai
  3. Du Fu
  4. Jabir ibn Hayyan
  5. Charlemagne
  6. Abu Nuwas
  7. Harun al-Rashid
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abū Ḥanīfa died, Harun al-Rashid was about a year old.

Born during Abū Ḥanīfa’s lifetime: Li Bai, Charlemagne, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, Jabir ibn Hayyan and Harun al-Rashid.

Not quite contemporaries: Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was born 10 years after Abū Ḥanīfa died.

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