Imam Abu Hanifa Was A Heretic?

 Here is an interesting video. (Non Muslims can skip this or you may find this interesting). I have read before  that there were always differences of opinion between the early imams and scholars. There was name calling and labelling people deviants. Here is a screen grab:

 

This video below looks in some detail at Imam Abu Hanifa - who was the earliest of the FOUR main Sunni Imams (Hanifa, Malik, Shafie, Hanbali). Abu Hanifa was a Persian who is said to have been born in 699 AD in Kufa in Iraq. He died in 767 AD in Baghdad. 

Today out of about 1.8 - 1.9 billion Muslims in the world the Hanafis (followers of Imam Abu Hanifa) make up the largest sect with between 600 million - 800 million followers (depending on different reports).