Commentary on the Creed of At-Tahawi: English Translation of the Arabic Classical Text شرح العقيد - Paperbackby Ibn Abi Al Izz (Author), Muhammad Abdul Haqq Ansari (Translator), Dar Ul Thaqafah (Contribution by) The author of this treatise is Imam abu Jafar al Tahawi (239 321 AH), one of the leading authorities on the Hanafi madhab. The period he lived in was the zenith of the dissemination of the Islamic sciences and Imam at Tahawi was one of the giants this era produced. To illustrate this; his teachers included Imam Ismail ibn Yahya Al Muzani (a major