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Ahmad ibn Hanbal
أحمد بن حنبل ar احمد بن حنبل fa
Muslim jurist and theologian (780–855)
- Child of Safiya bint Maymuna
- Married to Abbassa Bint Alfadl
- Dated 23 November 780 CE – 2 August 855 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 4
Family 4
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 19
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Al-Shafi'i Arab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar (767–820) -
Abu Yusuf Arab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798) Has references -
Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853) -
Yahya ibn Ma'in Iraqi Muslim scholar (774–847) -
Al-Darimi Hadith compiler, author of "Sunan"
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Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah Meccan Islamic religious scholar (725–814) -
‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani hadith scholar (744-826) -
Ali ibn al-Madini Sunni Islamic scholar (778–849) -
Waki ibn al-Jarrah Islamic hadith scholar (745/47–812) - Abu Dawud at-Tayalisi ↗ Iraqi collector of hadith (750/1-819/20)
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi ↗ Basran Islamic scholar, 8th-9th C Has references
- Yahya al-Qattan ↗ eighth-century Basran hadith scholar
- Yazīd ibn Hārūn ↗ Islamic scholar
- Hushaim ibn Bashir ↗
- Ibrahim ibn Sa'd al-Zuhri ↗
- Al-Walid ibn Muslim ↗
- Husayn ibn Ali al-Ju'fi ↗
- Bihz ibn Asad ↗
- Mu'tamir ibn Sulayman ↗
Ahmad ibn Hanbal Muslim jurist and theologian (780–855) Taught 20
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Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī Persian Islamic scholar (810-870) -
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj Islamic hadith scholar (821–875) -
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani 9th-century Persian Hadith compiler -
Dawud al-Zahiri Islamic scholar - Abu Zur'a al-Razi ↗ 9th-century Persian Muslim scholar
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- Baqī ibn Makhlad ↗ Spanish Islamic jurist (820–889)
- ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd Dārimī ↗ Muslim traditionalist, Hadith scholar
- Ḥarbī, Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ↗ Muslim writer
- Hanbal ibn Ishaq ↗ muhaddith
- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Baghawī ↗ jurist of Abbasid era (b. 829– d. 929)
- Salih ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal ↗ son of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal ↗ son of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi ↗
- Harb Al-Kirmani ↗ Hanbali Imam from the Imams of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah
- Abu Bakr al-Athram ↗
- Abu Bakr al-Marrudhi ↗ disciple and adherent of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Ishaq ibn Hanbal ↗ muhaddith
- Muhanna ibn Yahya al-Shami ↗ student of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abdul Wahhab ↗ Islamic scholar
- Bashar ibn Musa ↗
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Ahmad ibn Hanbal connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
43 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 41 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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