al-Balkhī, Abū Muṭīʿ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Rudolph, Ulrich
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Abū Muṭī ʿ al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdallāh b. Maslama al-Balkhī (112-99/730-814) was one of the earliest proponents of the Ḥanafiyya in eastern Iran. Apparently as a young man, he travelled to Mecca and through Iraq (al-Kaʿbī, 93:2-3), where he met Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767). Later, he reportedly also visited Abū Yūsuf (d. 182/798) in Baghdad (al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, 8:223 lines 11-12). Most of his life, however, he spent in his birth city of Balkh, where he held the