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Context: Hanafi Muslims are known to have an answer for basically any question imaginable, even absurd ones. During the Islamic Golden Age they wrote thousands of pages dealing with fiqh (jurisprudence), when most others would not bother with some issues. So think of an absurd question, and there is a 90% chance a Medieval Scholar wrote about it somewhere.

Translet Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan said: I found the people of Egypt to be of three kinds: one-third are people, one-third resemble people, and one-third are not people. As for the one-third who are people: they are the Arabs, the one-third who resemble people: they are Mawâlî, and the one-third who are not people: the peaceful ones - meaning the Copts -.

Source: Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' of Imam Al-Dhahabi

No disrespect to first years Umayyad caliphate