Assalamu alaykum I have many friends and relatives who are salfees in India. The soft among them uses Noman bin saabith for Imam Azam Abu Haneefa RA. They get wild when you use Imam. The hardest among them do tabarrah of Imam Abu Haneefah, they call him kaafir. (read urdu magazines published by jamiatus salafiah Banaras)