entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ISL_ABU_HANIFA,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,"Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit (c. 699-767 CE) of Kufa, eponymous founder of the Hanafi school, the most widely followed Sunni legal tradition."
ENT_ISL_AHMAD_IBN_HANBAL,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,"Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855 CE) of Baghdad founded the Hanbali school, emphasized hadith over speculative reasoning, and compiled the vast Musnad."
ENT_ISL_AL_SHAFII,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820 CE) founded the Shafi'i school and is regarded as the father of Islamic legal theory in his Risala.
ENT_ISL_ASMA_AL_HUSNA,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,"Al-Asma al-Husna are the ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God (al-Rahman, al-Rahim, al-Malik, ...) enumerated in tradition and recited in devotion; names of the one God, not separate beings."
ENT_ISL_FOUR_IMAMS,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,"Sunni Islam recognizes four orthodox schools of law, each named for a jurist of the 8th-9th centuries CE whose legal methodology it codified."
ENT_ISL_MALIK_IBN_ANAS,SRC_ISLAMIC_TRADITION,scholarly attestation,"Malik ibn Anas (c. 711-795 CE) of Medina founded the Maliki school and authored the Muwatta, an early collection of hadith and law."