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 "id": "person/ahmad-ibn-hanbal",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "ahmad-ibn-hanbal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أحمد بن حنبل",
  "en": "Ahmad ibn Hanbal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إمام محدّث، جمع المسند، وصاحب المذهب الحنبلي الذي يقدّم النص والأثر، ولم يؤلّف في الفقه إلا رسالة واحدة في الصلاة، وكتب عنه أصحابه أكثر من ثلاثين سفراً من كلامه وفتواه.",
  "en": "An imam and hadith scholar who compiled the Musnad; eponym of the Hanbali school, which gives precedence to the revealed text and transmitted reports. He wrote only one treatise on jurisprudence, on prayer, while his students wrote more than thirty volumes of his words and fatwas."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sects-and-schools",
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أحمد بن محمد بن حنبل الشيباني"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "died": {
   "hijri": "0241",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The Ibn Badran book does not state his death year; the date comes from the Musnad source entry. A second source is needed.",
   "sources": [
    "source/musnad-ahmad"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "teacher"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni-hanbali"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni-hanbali",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Founder of the madhhab named in the book's title; the book's first section records the creed attributed to him.",
    "sources": [
     "source/madkhal-ibn-badran-turki"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المدخل إلى مذهب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل لابن بدران، تحقيق عبد الله التركي، مؤسسة الرسالة 1981 (الطبعة الثانية)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claims table and entity data); qwen3:32b via Ollama (Arabic prose draft, reviewed by hand)",
   "run": "madkhal-batch-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/madkhal-ibn-badran-turki",
   "source/musnad-ahmad"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; claims from pp. 47, 104, 123-124 of the book; death year is from the Musnad entry and needs a second source"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لم يؤلّف الإمام أحمد كتاباً في الفقه، وكانت غاية ما كتبه فيه رسالة في الصلاة، كتبها إلى إمام صلّى وراءه فأساء في صلاته {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.124}. وكان يكره تدوين الكتب التي تشتمل على التفريع والرأي، ويرى أن الأولى الاشتغال بالنقل {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.123}. وكتب عنه أصحابه من كلامه وفتواه أكثر من ثلاثين سفراً {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسند",
     "markdown": "يُذكر في الكتاب أن المسند ثلاثون ألف حديث {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.104}. وينقل الكتاب عن ابنه عبد الله حكايةً يقول فيها إن أباه جمعه من أكثر من سبع مئة ألف حديث، وإن ما اختلف فيه المسلمون من حديث رسول الله يُرجع إليه {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.104}. وقد ناقش هامش الكتاب نسبة هذه الحكاية إليه {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.104}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "العقائد",
     "markdown": "يعرض الكتاب في عقده الأول العقائد التي نُقلت عن الإمام أحمد {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.47}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ahmad-ibn-hanbal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Imam Ahmad authored no book of fiqh; the most he wrote on it was a letter on prayer, written to an imam who prayed behind him and erred in his prayer {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 124}. He disliked writing down books containing branching questions and opinion, holding that engaging with transmitted reports came first {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 123}. His companions wrote down more than thirty volumes of his words and fatwas {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Musnad",
     "markdown": "The book mentions that the Musnad contains thirty thousand hadiths {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 104}. It transmits from his son Abdullah a report saying his father gathered it from more than seven hundred thousand hadiths, and that whatever the Muslims differed on of the Messenger of God's hadith is referred back to it {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 104}. The book's margin discusses the attribution of this report to him {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 104}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The creeds",
     "markdown": "In its first division the book presents the creeds transmitted from Imam Ahmad {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p. 47}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ahmad-ibn-hanbal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bida",
  "concept/hadith-qudsi",
  "concept/ilm",
  "concept/ittisal-al-isnad",
  "concept/kalam-allah",
  "event/fatrat-al-wahy"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}