❝The companions of Imam Ahmad have two approaches [in terms of using the practice of Ahlu-l Madinah for making Tarjih]. Qadi Abu Ya’la and ibn ‘Aqeel do not see it as such, while Abu-l Khattab said it is used for giving preference, and it is reported that this [second] position is the view of Ahmad. […]
The kunya Abu-l Ma’āli, in our books, refers to Wajīh al-Dīn Ibn al-Munajja (d. 657 H) one of the senior scholars of the Hanbalis in the 13th century. He is the author of many works, from them: 1) al-Nihāya Fī Sharh al-Hidāya 2) al-Khulāsa Fi-l Madhhab He was the grandfather of the Abu-l Barakāt Ibn […]
❝Ruqayyah al-Hanbaliyyah, the sister of al-Muwaffaq [Ibn Qudāmah], was a righteous woman who used to forbid evil. Both men and women used to be afraid of her, and she would reconcile between people who were in disputes.❞ — Imām al-Dhahabi (r) [Tārīkh al-Islām]
Al-Marrūdhi (r) said about Imām Ahmad (h): ❝Abū ‘Abdillāh would never make grammatical errors in his speech.❞ Those who attended his trial were also amazed by this, that there wasn’t a single solecism, not even in one word, despite the dreadful nature of the environment he was in and the severity of the punishment and […]
❝Allāh’s messenger ﷺ would lengthen the Fajr prayer compared to the other prayers due to a number of reasons: – The recitation at Fajr is witnessed (by Allāh and the angels according to some, and by the angels of the day and night according to others). – Its length makes up for the decrease in […]
❝Many women in our times, when they leave the house to go to the bathhouse they wear every fine garment they own but when they are at home they wear their worst clothes.❞ — Imām Ibn al-Mibrad al-Hanbalī (r) [d. 909 AH] This extends also to the husbands, to look after yourselves for your wives. […]
Four things linked to ‘Āshūrā: 1. It is Sunnah to fast the month of Muharram and fasting of this month is the best, second to that of Ramadān. This is based on the Prophet’s ﷺ saying: ❝After the prescribed prayers the most excellent is the prayer offered in the middle of the night and the […]
The following text shows us how encyclopedic the knowledge of our Imām was, the Imām Ahl al-Sunnah, Ahmad b. Hanbal, and it will also show what some of his students and companions used to specialise and take interest in; you will find him encapsulating the (knowledge left behind) by the Mujtahid Imāms before him. It […]
The praise of the Imāms of the Shāfi’ī Madhhab for the Hanbali masterpiece: al-Mughnī by Shaykhu-l Islām, Muwaffaq al-Dīn, Ibn Qudāmā al-Maqdisī (r): ❝Al-Mughnī is the greatest book of the Hanbalis, and Shaykh Muhiy al-Dīn al-Nawāwī imitated this book whilst authoring Sharh al-Muhaddab.❞ — Imām al-Suyūtī [al-Hāwī Li-l Fatāwī, (1/169)] ❝…Mughni of the Hanbalis, which […]
Busy yourself with learning Fiqh, revising it, and teaching it to friends and family. Do it for Allah and it’s never a waste of time. Ishāq b. Mansūr said, ❝I asked Ahmad b. Hanbal about something he had once said: ‘Spending some of the night studying is more beloved to me than spending it in […]