مِنَ الْمُجْتَهِدِينَ فِي فُرُوعِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ
One of the scholars exercising juristic reasoning in the subsidiary questions of Hanafi jurisprudence.
Furūʿ are applied or subsidiary questions in which specific rulings are developed through general principles. Ijtihād is disciplined reasoning from the relevant evidence and methods, not an expression of personal preference.
The application of a condition in a particular act of worship, for instance, may require close attention to evidence and the precise question under dispute. This biographical association identifies a legal scholarly context; it does not make every difference in legal detail a difference in foundational belief.