The name is a reference to Abū Ḥanīfah an-Nuʿmān, known as al-Imām al-Aʿẓam (Arabic: الإِمَـام الأَعـظَـم, "The Great Imam"), a renowned scholar and founder of the prominent Sunni Hanafī school of Islamic religious jurisprudence.
Sunan al-Sughra (Arabic: سنن الصغرى, romanized: Sunan al-Ṣughrā), also known as Sunan al-Nasa'i (Arabic: سنن النسائي, romanized: Sunan al-Nasāʾī), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections), and was collected…