Abu Bakr al-Khallal
أبو بكر الخلال
311 AH
He gathered Imam Ahmad's transmitted answers and wrote them down with their chains of transmission in the book al-Jami', which counts as the foundation of the school, and so prepared the way for the writing down of Hanbali jurisprudence.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni (Hanbali)
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Summary
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Harun, Abu Bakr al-Khallal, who collected the dicta related from Imam Ahmad with their chains and travelled the lands to meet the Imam's companions 1. He authored the book al-Jami'; Ibn al-Jawzi reckoned it at about two hundred parts, Ibn Qayyim at about twenty volumes or more 1. The book became a root of Ahmad's school — the companions looked into it and composed the books of fiqh from it 1. He died in 311 AH 1.
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Sources
- al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition), p. 124
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