Salam Alaikum, I just wanted to know if anyone had any information on Abu Hanifa. I was recently reading some books by Imam Jaffar Sadiq (as) which stated that he was a true follower of the ahlul bayt. I was wondering if anyone else had read this in any of the books. Also it seems that in defiance to Mansur he was imprisoned for not wanting to be the Chief Justice and died in jail in protest. I also read that his so called student Abu Yusuf took the position by Mansur and fabricated the Hanafi school of thought as dictated by Mansur. Have we been maligning a true follower of the ahlul bayt because we do not know his true history. Can someone shed some more light on this because I think we as Shias owe it to Abu Hanifa to have him recognized as true follower of Imam Jaffar Sadiq (as) rather than the stories stated about him which were actually the writings of some one else.