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  "ar": "مسدد بن مسرهد"
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  "ar": "محدّث بصري كتب إلى الإمام أحمد بن حنبل يطلب منه سنة رسول الله حين أشكلت عليه فتنة القول بخلق القرآن، فأجابه الإمام برسالة في لزوم السنة وأن القرآن غير مخلوق. وعند المسعودي اسمه عبد الملك بن عبد العزيز ومات في خلافة المتوكل {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 512}"
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  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "dissent-heresy-freethought"
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    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "مسدد بن مسرهد البصري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "writer"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni-hanbali"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المدخل إلى مذهب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل لابن بدران، تحقيق عبد الله التركي، مؤسسة الرسالة 1981 (الطبعة الثانية)",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كتب مسدد بن مسرهد إلى الإمام أحمد بن حنبل يطلب منه أن يكتب إليه سنة رسول الله، حين أشكل عليه أمر الفتنة في القول بخلق القرآن وما اختلف فيه الناس {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.52}. قال أحمد حين وصل الكتاب إنه بكى، وأن صاحبه يزعم أنه أنفق مالاً عظيماً على العلم وهو لا يهتدي إلى سنة رسول الله {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.52}. كتب إليه أحمد رسالة يوصيه فيها بتقوى الله ولزوم السنة والجماعة، ويأمره ألا يؤثر على القرآن شيئاً {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.53}."
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    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Musaddad ibn Musarhad wrote to the imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal asking him to write to him the Sunna of the Messenger of God, when the matter of the trial over saying that the Qur'an was created and what people disagreed on had become unclear to him. {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.52}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ahmad's reply",
     "markdown": "Ahmad, when the letter arrived, said that he wept, and that its bearer claimed he had spent great wealth on knowledge and yet did not find his way to the Sunna of the Messenger of God. {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.52} Ahmad wrote him a letter counselling him to fear God, to keep to the Sunna and the community, and ordering him not to prefer anything to the Qur'an. {cite:madkhal-ibn-badran-turki p.53}"
    }
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  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
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