The life of Ibn Hanbal /
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profoundknowledge of hadiths--the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds--is a majorfigure in the history of Islam. He was famous for living according to his ownstrict interpretation of the Prophetic model and for denying himself the most...
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New York :
New York University Press,
2016.
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- The Life of Ibn Hanbal
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes to the Introduction
- The Life of IBN Ḥanbal
- Chapter 1. Ibn Ḥanbal's Birth and Family Background
- Chapter 2. His Lineage
- Chapter 3. His Childhood
- Chapter 4. The Beginning of His Search for Knowledge and the Journey He Undertook for That Purpose
- Chapter 5. The Major Men of Learning Whom He Met and on Whose Authority He Recited Hadith
- Chapter 6. His Deference to His Teachers and His Respect for Learning
- Chapter 7. His Eagerness to Learn and His Single-Minded Pursuit of Knowledge
- Chapter 8. His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart
- Chapter 9. His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding
- Chapter 10. Praise of Him by His Teachers
- Chapter 11. Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him
- Chapter 12. All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him
- Chapter 13. Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age
- Chapter 14. Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well
- Chapter 15. A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings
- Chapter 17. Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God
- Chapter 18. Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing
- Chapter 19. His Fame
- Chapter 20. His Creed
- Chapter 21. His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims
- Chapter 22. His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah
- Chapter 23. His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them
- Chapter 24. His Seeking of Blessings and Cures Using the Qurʼan and Water from the Well of Zamzam, as Well as Some Hair and a Bowl That Belonged to the Prophet
- Chapter 25. His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions
- Chapter 26. His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching
- Chapter 27. His Works
- Chapter 28. His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge
- Chapter 29. His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words
- Chapter 30. His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One's Pious Austerities
- Chapter 31. His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness
- Chapter 32. His Remarks on Different Subjects
- Chapter 33. Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him
- Chapter 34. His Correspondence
- Chapter 35. His Appearance and Bearing
- Chapter 36. His Imposing Presence
- Chapter 37. His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity
- Chapter 38. His Kindness and His Consideration for Others
- Chapter 39. His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive
- Chapter 40. His Property and Means of Subsistence
- Chapter 41. His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress
- Chapter 42. His Generosity
- Chapter 43. His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return
- Chapter 44. His Renunciation
- Chapter 45. His House and Furniture
- Chapter 46. His Diet
- Chapter 47. His Indulgences
- Chapter 48. His Clothing
- Chapter 49. His Scrupulosity
- Chapter 50. His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority
- Chapter 51. His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor
- Chapter 52. His Humility
- Chapter 53. His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of
- Chapter 54. His Preference for Solitude
- Chapter 55. His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed
- Chapter 56. His Fear of God
- Chapter 57. His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness
- Chapter 58. His Devotions
- Chapter 59. His Performances of the Pilgrimage
- Chapter 60. His Extemporaneous Prayers and Supplications
- Chapter 61. His Manifestations of Grace and the Effectiveness of His Prayers
- Chapter 62. The Number of Wives He Had
- Chapter 63. His Concubines
- Chapter 64. The Number of His Children
- Chapter 65. The Lives of His Children and Descendants
- Chapter 66. How and Why the Inquisition Began
- Chapter 67. His Experience with al-Maʼmūn
- Chapter 68. What Happened after the Death of al-Maʼmūn
- Chapter 69. His Experience with al-Muʻtaṣim
- Chapter 70. His Reception by the Elders after His Release, and Their Prayers for Him
- Chapter 71. His Teaching of Hadith after the Death of al-Muʻtaṣim
- Chapter 72. His Experience with al-Wāthiq
- Chapter 73. His Experience with al-Mutawakkil
- Chapter 74. His Refusing Ibn Ṭāhir's Request to Visit Him
- Chapter 75. What Happened When His Two Sons and His Uncle Accepted Gifts from the Authorities
- Chapter 76. Some Major Figures Who Capitulated to the Inquisition
- Chapter 77. His Comments on Those Who Capitulated
- Chapter 78. Those Who Defied the Inquisition
- Chapter 79. His Final Illness
- Chapter 80. His Date of Death and His Age When He Died
- Chapter 81. How His Body Was Washed and Shrouded
- Chapter 82. On Who Sought to Pray over Him
- Chapter 83. The Number of People Who Prayed over Him
- Chapter 84. The Praising of the Sunnah and the Decrying of Innovation That Took Place during His Funeral Procession
- Chapter 85. The Crowds That Gathered around His Grave
- Chapter 86. His Estate
- Chapter 87. Reactions to His Death
- Chapter 88. Reaction to His Death on the Part of the Jinns
- Chapter 89. On the Condolences Offered to His Family
- Chapter 90. A Selection of the Verses Spoken in Praise of Him in Life and in Commemoration of Him in Death
- Chapter 91. His Dreams
- Chapter 92. Dreams in Which He Appeared to Others
- Chapter 93. Dreams in Which He Was Mentioned
- Chapter 94. The Benefit of Visiting His Grave
- Chapter 95. The Benefit of Being Buried Near Him
- Chapter 96. The Punishments That Befall Anyone Who Attacks Him
- Chapter 97. What to Think about Anyone Who Speaks Ill of Him
- Chapter 98. Why We Chose His Legal School over the Others
- Chapter 99. On the Excellence of His Associates and Successors
- Chapter 100. His Most Prominent Associates and Their Successors from His Time to Our Own
- [Colophons]
- Notes
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature