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ASSALAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU . LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *THE STORY OF IMMAM AHMAD IBN HAMBALI (Episode 3)(final)*___*PAGE 1*___
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Ibn Hanbal also had a strict criterion for ijtihad or independent reasoning in matters of law by muftis and the ulema. One story narrates that Ibn Hanbal was asked by Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḍarīr about "how many memorized ḥadīths are sufficient for someone to be a mufti [meaning a mujtahid jurist or one capable of issuing independently-reasoned fatwas]." According to the narrative, Zakariyyā asked: "Are one-hundred thousand sufficient?" to which Ibn Hanbal responded in the negative, with Zakariyyā asking if two-hundred thousand were, to which he received the same response from the jurist.
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Thus, Zakariyyā kept increasing the number until, at five-hundred thousand, Ibn Hanbal said: "I hope that that should be sufficient." As a result, it has been argued that Ibn Hanbal disapproved of independent reasoning by those muftis who were not absolute masters in law and jurisprudence. Ibn Hanbal narrated from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān that the latter said: "If someone were to follow every rukhṣa [dispensation] that is in the ḥadīth, he would become a transgressor (fāsiq)."
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t is believed that he quoted this on account of the vast number of forged traditions of the Prophet. Ibn Hanbal appears to have been a formidable opponent of "private interpretation," and actually held that it was only the religious scholars who were qualified to properly interpret the holy texts. One of the creeds attributed to Ibn Hanbal opens with: "Praise be to God, who in every age and interval between prophets (fatra) elevated learned men possessing excellent qualities, who call upon him who goes astray (to return) to the right way."
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It has been pointed out that this particular creed "explicitly opposes the use of personal judgement (raʾy) ... [as basis] of jurisprudence”. Ibn Hanbal was praised both in his own life and afterwards for "his serene acceptance of juridicial divergences among the" various schools of Islamic law. According to later notable scholars of the Hanbali school like Ibn Aqil and Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Hanbal "considered every madhhab correct and abhorred that a jurist insist people follow his even if he considered them wrong and even if the truth is one in any given matter."
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As such, when Ibn Hanbal's student Ishāq ibn Bahlūl al-Anbārī had "compiled a book on juridicial differences ... which he had named The Core of Divergence (Lubāb al-Ikhtilāf)," Ibn Hanbal advised him to name the work The Book of Leeway (Kitāb al-Sa'a) instead. The following books are found in Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist:
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🔹*Usool as-Sunnah*: “Foundations of the Prophetic Tradition (in Belief)"
asSunnah : "The Prophet Tradition (in Belief)"
🔹*Kitab al-`Ilal wa Ma‘rifat al-Rijal*: “The Book of Narrations Containing Hidden Flaws and of Knowledge of the Men (of Hadeeth)" Riyad: Al-Maktabah al-Islamiyyah
🔹*Kitab al-Manasik*: “The Book of the Rites of Hajj"
🔹*Kitab al-Zuhd*: “The Book of Abstinence" ed. Muhammad Zaghlul, Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, 1994
🔹*Kitab al-Iman*: “The Book of Faith"
🔹*Kitab al-Masa'il* "Issues in Fiqh"
🔹*Kitab al-Ashribah*: “The Book of Drinks"
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🔹*Kitab al-Fada'il Sahaba*: Virtues of the Companions"
🔹*Kitab Tha'ah al-Rasul* : "The Book of Obedience to the Messenger"
🔹*Kitab Mansukh*: “The Book of Abrogation"
🔹*Kitab al-Fara'id*;”The Book of Obligatory Duties"
🔹*Kitab al-Radd* ‘ala al-Zanadiqa wa'l-Jahmiyya "Refutations of the Heretics and the Jahmites" (Cairo: 1973)
🔹Tafsir : "Exegesis"
Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Ibn Hanbal has been extensively praised for both his work in the field of prophetic tradition and his defense of orthodox Sunni dogma. Abdul-Qadir Gilani stated that a Muslim could not truly be a wali of Allah except that they were upon Ibn Hanbal's creed; despite praise from his contemporaries as well, Yahya ibn Ma'in noted that Ibn Hanbal never boasted about his achievements. His juristic views were not always accepted.
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Qur'anic exegete Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, who at one time had sought to study under Ibn Hanbal, later stated that he did not consider Ibn Hanbal a jurist and gave his views in the field no weight, describing him as an expert in prophetic tradition only. Likewise, Andalusian scholar Ibn 'Abd al-Barr did not include Ibn Hanbal or his views in his book The Hand-Picked Excellent Merits of the Three Great Jurisprudent Imâms about the main representatives of Sunni jurisprudence.
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Thus, while Ibn Hanbal's prowess in the field of tradition appears to be undisputed, his status as a jurist has not enjoyed the same reception. Ibn Hanbal passed away on Friday, 12 Rabi-ul-awwal, 241 AH/ 2 August, 855 at the age of 74-75 in Baghdad, Iraq. Historians relate that his funeral was attended by 800,000 men and 60,000 women and that 20,000 Christians and Jews converted to Islam on that day. His qabr (grave) is located in the premises of the Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal Shrine in Ar-Rusafa District.
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End of Today's Education. Questions, Suggestions and grievances on or to better this program is welcome. *This conclude us on Hanbali's story as well as the the "STORYTELLING TOPIC" which started on Prophet Adam pbuh to the last Prophet. We also brought u Sahaba's story. Once again this story perhaps will be repeated here in five years in sha Allah. Meanwhile you can fetch the previous lessons on our telegram channel as we always encourages. We will break for a week and start on once again a comprehensive topic (TAFSIR OF THE GLORIOUS QUR'AN). In the course of this one week, we may bring you two or three posts in sha Allah*. May Allah azza wa jalla make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadaat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May HE guide, forgive and grant us Jannah...AMIN.
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