An Introduction to the Hanbali Madhhab

An Introduction to the Hanbali Madhhab (With Arabic Text) By Abd al-Qadir Ibn Badran al-Dimashqi

• ISBN: 9781838489717, 9781838489700
  
• Author: Abd al-Qadir Ibn Badran al-Dimashqi
  
• Book Binding: Hard cover
  
• Pages: 900 
  
• Size: 9.7 x 2.8 x 2.8 inch
  
• Publication year: 2021
  

About This Book:

This work highlights the lives and contributions of some of the most esteemed scholars in Islamic history.

Ibn Taymiyyah praised Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal as “the virtuous imam and the complete leader, through whom Allah clarified the truth, rejected falsehood, established the correct methodology, and opposed the innovations of innovators, the heresies of heretics, and the doubts of the doubtful.” [Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyyah, 3/312]

Al-Subkī described him as “the virtuous imam and the leader of a way of thought, patient even amidst trials, and the teacher and exemplar of Ahl al-Sunnah.” [Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā, 2/27]

Imam al-Shāfiʿī commended Ahmad ibn Hanbal as “an imam in eight characteristics: hadith, jurisprudence, language, Qur’ān, poverty, asceticism, abstinence, and adherence to the Sunnah.” [Tabaqāt al-Hanābilah of Ibn Abī Yalā, I/1]

Ibn Badrān was described by Al-Ustādh Adham al-Junaydī as “skilled in rational, literary, and mathematical sciences, encyclopedic in law and grammar, a virtuous scholar who forsook worldly vanities and lived an austere, exemplary life.” [Alam al-Adab wa l-Fan, I/224–225]

Shaykh Muhammad Bahjat al-Bayṭār noted that Ibn Badrān “possessed high aspirations and worked tirelessly to revive religious and scholarly awakening in the Levant. Like the scholars of the Salaf, he taught in private, preached publicly, authored influential works, and renounced worldly vanities.” [Introduction of Munadamat al-Atlal]

This collection serves as a testament to the piety, scholarship, and enduring legacy of these luminaries, offering readers insight into their lives, teachings, and contributions to Islamic thought.