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أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَل
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
The imam of hadith who was flogged rather than say the Qur'an was created.
Also written · Ahmad ibn Hanbal · Imam Ahmad · Ahmed ibn Hanbal · Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal · Ahmad bin Hambal · Ahmed bin Hanbel · Imam Hanbal · Musnad Ahmad · Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal · Imam Ahmed
The meaning
What Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal means in Islam
He died in 241 in Baghdad. His Musnad gathers tens of thousands of reports arranged by the Companion who narrated them rather than by subject. Under three caliphs he was put to the test over the doctrine that the Qur'an is created, imprisoned and beaten, and refused; when the policy was finally reversed his stand was seen as having held the community's creed steady. He is reported to have forgiven the man who flogged him, and he resisted having his opinions written down as a school at all.
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- HanbaliThe school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the most text bound of the four, strongest in Arabia.المَذْهَبُ الحَنْبَلِيّ
- MusnadEither a hadith with a connected chain reaching the Prophet, or a book arranged by narrating Companion.المُسْنَد
- Imam ash-Shafi'iThe imam who wrote the first book on how law is derived, bridging Madinah and Iraq.مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الشَّافِعِيّ
- Imam al-BukhariThe scholar from Bukhara who compiled the Sahih, the most rigorously sifted book of hadith.مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ البُخَارِيّ
- AqidahThe set of things a Muslim holds to be true, as opposed to the things a Muslim does.العَقِيدَة
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