Who is the Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal?

15-12-2002 | IslamWeb

Question:

The life of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hambal .

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Answer:

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.

Imam Ahmad Ibn Hambal is one of the four eminent scholars whose schools of Fiqh are considered by all Muslims as authentic. He is Ahmad Ibn Hambal Ibn Hilal Ibn Assad al-Shaibany Abu Abdullah . He was born in 164 after Hijrah in Baghdad. He started seeking knowledge at an early age. So, he traveled to many places and met many scholars. He studied with a good understanding what those scholars taught him. He was known to have a good memory and to master skillfully whatever he learned until he became an Imam in Hadith and Fiqh apart from being very pious and very strong in expressing the truth and in following the Sunnah. He became very famous above all - after his stand in what was known at that time as "The issue of Qur'an creation". He is the initiator of what became later known as the Hambali Madhab (school of Fiqh). He wrote many books in Tawheed, Sunnah, Fiqh and Tafseer.
One of his most famous books is al-Musnad in Hadith. He died on Friday 241.
For more details about this great Imam, refer to Ibn al-Juzia 's book: Manqib al Imam Ahmad .
Allah knows best.