17 Facts About Hanbali

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Hanbali school is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

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The Hanbali madhhab is the smallest of four major Sunni schools, the others being the Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi`i.

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3.

Hanbali school derives sharia primarily from the Qur'an, the Hadiths, and the views of Sahabah.

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4.

Hanbali school is the strict traditionalist school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam.

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5.

Hanbali followers are the demographic majority in four emirates of UAE.

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6.

Large minorities of Hanbali followers are found in Bahrain, Syria, Oman and Yemen and among Iraqi and Jordanian bedouins.

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7.

Hanbali school experienced a reformation during the 18th-century Wahhabi movement.

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8.

Historically, the Hanbali school was treated as simply another valid interpretation of Shariat, and many prominent medieval Sufis, such as Abdul Qadir Gilani, were Hanbali jurists and mystics at the same time.

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9.

Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of Hanbali school of thought, was a disciple of the Sunni Imam Al-Shafi'i, who was reportedly a student of Imam Malik ibn Anas, who was a student of the Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, like Imam Abu Hanifa.

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Hanbali's guiding principle was that the Quran and Sunnah are the only proper sources of Islamic jurisprudence, and are of equal authority and should be interpreted literally in line with the Athari creed.

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11.

Hanbali believed that there can be no true consensus among jurists of his time, and preferred the consensus of Muhammad's companions and weaker hadiths.

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12.

Hanbali devoted himself to the task of collection and study of Hadith; and believed that legal rulings must be derived by referring directly to the Qur'an and Sunnah; instead of referring to a body of religious jurisprudence.

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13.

The Hanbali school rejects taqlid and encourages the practice of Ijtihad through the study of Quran and Hadith.

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Additionally, the Hanbali madh'hab accepted the Islamic principle of Maslaha in solving the novel issues.

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15.

Unlike the other three schools of Islamic jurisprudence, the Hanbali madhab remained largely traditionalist or Athari in theology and it was primarily Hanbali scholars who codified the Athari school of thought.

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16.

Hanbali school is accepted as the fourth of the mainstream Sunni schools of law.

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Hanbali adopted an attitude where he'd reject hadiths if he discovered something suspicious about the lives of those who reported it, or in the case where a narrator in the Sanad is not a widely known figure.

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