ahmad ibn hanbal

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born 780, Baghdad, Iraq died 855, Baghdad Muslim theologian and jurist. He began to study the Hadth (Traditions) at age

He traveled widely to study with the great masters and made five pilgrimages to Mecca. In 833-835 he bravely endured floggings and imprisonment rather than subscribe to the Mutazil doctrine of a created (rather than eternal) Qurn, and he is remembered as a staunch upholder of Muslim traditionalism. He compiled the Traditions of Muhammad and is the eponym of the anbal school, the most traditional of the four orthodox Islamic schools of (Hukuk) Opposing codification of the law, he believed jurists needed the freedom to derive legal solutions from the Qurn and the sunna. He is revered as one of the fathers of Islam