Abū ʿAbdillāh Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥanbal أَبُو عَبْد ٱلله أَحْمَد ابْن مُحَمَّد ابْن حَنۢبَل
Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal's name in Arabic calligraphy
Title	Sheikh ul-Islam, Imam
Personal
Born	November 780 CE Rabi-ul-Awwal 164 AH[1] Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate[2]
Died	2 August 855 CE 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal 241 AH (aged 74-75)[1] Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate[3]
Religion	Islam
Ethnicity	Arab
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Iraq
Jurisprudence	Hanbali
Creed	Sunni
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Hadith, Aqeedah[3]
Notable idea(s)	Hanbali madhhab
Notable work(s)	Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Radd ʿala’l-Ḏj̲ahmiyya wa’l-Zanādiḳa[disputed]
Occupation	Scholar of Islam, muhaddith
Senior posting
Influenced by Al-Shafi‘i,[3] Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah, ‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani
Influenced Particularly jurists and mystics of the Hanbali school like Abu Dawood, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal, Harb ibn Ismail al-Kirmani,Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la, Ibn Aqil, Abdul-Qadir Al-Gilani, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Qudamah, Ibn Hamdan, Ibn Taymiyyah, Abdullah Al-Ansari, Ibn Al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Ibn Rajab, Ibn Muflih, Mar'i al-Karmi and Sulayman ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Imam Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu Abdullah Al-Shaibani (780–855 AD/164-241 AH) (Arabic: بنحمد بن محمد بن حنبل أبو عبد الله الشياڻي), was a famous Islamic figure, scholar of Islamic law and hadith. One of the four traditional schools of Islam, the Hanbali school, is based on its interpretation. Imam Ahmad Shaikhul Islam is known in the Muslim world. Musnad, a collection of hadiths compiled by Imam Ahmad, is considered his great work.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل". Ibnamin.com. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
2. ↑ The History of Persia by John Malcolm – Page 245
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsh by Edward Granville Browne – Page 295

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