al-Jami li Ulum al-Imam Ahmad - al-Tarjama
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al-Jami li Ulum al-Imam Ahmad - al-Tarjama (The Compendium of the Sciences of Imam Ahmad – Biography) is an Arabic biographical volume compiled by Khalid al-Ribat and Wa'il Imam with the participation of researchers at Dar al-Falah, forming the second volume of the multi-volume reference work al-Jami li Ulum al-Imam Ahmad .
Composition and Scope
The volume was prepared as part of the broader encyclopedic project Mudawwanat al-Hanabila to serve as a comprehensive biographical study of Ahmad ibn Hanbal . Functioning as a complementary study to the encyclopedia's introductory first volume (al-Muqaddimat), it focuses on Imam Ahmad's life stages, the narrators and students who transmitted his teachings, a survey of the principal historical biographies written about him, and a biography structured through the transmitted reports concerning him .
Structure and Contents
The work arranges the life and legacy of Ahmad ibn Hanbal across several thematic chapters:
- Lineage, Upbringing, and Demeanor: Covers his genealogical descent through the Banu Shayban, his birth in Rabi al-Awwal 164 AH, his orphanhood following his father's early death at about thirty years of age, his family history, and his personal description and conduct .
- Scholarship and Teaching: Examines his depth of knowledge, his sessions for hadith transmission and fatwa issuance, his stance on recording his statements and the reports of his retraction regarding it, and his written works .
- Scholarly Commendation: Documents praises from his teachers, contemporaries, and followers, poetic verses composed about him, and his adherence to the Sunnah and prophetic traditions .
- The Inquisitions (al-Mihna): Details his trial over the doctrine of the createdness of the Quran across successive caliphal reigns, beginning under al-Ma'mun, continuing under al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq, his subsequent interactions under al-Mutawakkil, the accusation that he concealed an Alid fugitive, and his summons to al-Askar and eventual return .
- Illness and Death: Chronicles his final sickness, the date and age of his death, his washing, funeral prayer, burial, and his estate and will .
Publication
The volume was published in its first edition in 1430 AH / 2009 CE by Dar al-Falah for Scientific Research and Heritage Verification, located in Fayoum, Egypt .
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