The Life of Ibn Hanbal

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Contents
Letter from the General Editor
About this Paperback
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes to the Introduction
THE LIFE OF IBN ḤANBAL
	Chapter 1: Ibn Ḥanbal’s Birth and Family Background
	Chapter 2: His Lineage
	Chapter 3: His Childhood
	Chapter 4: The Beginning of His Search for Knowledge and the Journey He Undertook for That Purpose
	Chapter 5: The Major Men of Learning Whom He Met and on Whose Authority He Recited Hadith
	Chapter 6: His Deference to His Teachers and His Respect for Learning
	Chapter 7: His Eagerness to Learn and His Single-Minded Pursuit of Knowledge
	Chapter 8: His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart
	Chapter 9: His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding
	Chapter 10: Praise of Him by His Teachers
	Chapter 11: Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him
	Chapter 12: All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him
	Chapter 13: Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age
	Chapter 14: Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well
	Chapter 15: A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings
	Chapter 16: Reports That al-KhaḊir Spoke in His Praise
	Chapter 17: Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God
	Chapter 18: Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing
	Chapter 19: His Fame
	Chapter 20: His Creed
	Chapter 21: His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims
	Chapter 22: His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah
	Chapter 23: His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them
	Chapter 24: His Seeking of Blessings and Cures Using the Qurʾan and Water from the Well of Zamzam, as Well as Some Hair and a Bowl That Belonged to the Prophet
	Chapter 25: His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions
	Chapter 26: His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching
	Chapter 27: His Works
	Chapter 28: His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge
	Chapter 29: His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words
	Chapter 30: His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One’s Pious Austerities
	Chapter 31: His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness
	Chapter 32: His Remarks on Different Subjects
	Chapter 33: Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him
	Chapter 34: His Correspondence
	Chapter 35: His Appearance and Bearing
	Chapter 36: His Imposing Presence
	Chapter 37: His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity
	Chapter 38: His Kindness and His Consideration for Others
	Chapter 39: His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive
	Chapter 40: His Property and Means of Subsistence
	Chapter 41: His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress
	Chapter 42: His Generosity
	Chapter 43: His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return
	Chapter 44: His Renunciation
	Chapter 45: His House and Furniture
	Chapter 46: His Diet
	Chapter 47: His Indulgences
	Chapter 48: His Clothing
	Chapter 49: His Scrupulosity
	Chapter 50: His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority
	Chapter 51: His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor
	Chapter 52: His Humility
	Chapter 53: His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of
	Chapter 54: His Preference for Solitude
	Chapter 55: His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed
	Chapter 56: His Fear of God
	Chapter 57: His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness
	Chapter 58: His Devotions
	Chapter 59: His Performances of the Pilgrimage
	Chapter 60: His Extemporaneous Prayers and Supplications
	Chapter 61: His Manifestations of Grace and the Effectiveness of His Prayers
	Chapter 62: The Number of Wives He Had
	Chapter 63: His Concubines
	Chapter 64: The Number of His Children
	Chapter 65: The Lives of His Children and Descendants
	Chapter 66: How and Why the Inquisition Began
	Chapter 67: His Experience with al-Maʾmūn
	Chapter 68: What Happened after the Death of al-Maʾmūn
	Chapter 69: His Experience with al-Muʿtaṣim
	Chapter 70: His Reception by the Elders after His Release, and Their Prayers for Him
	Chapter 71: His Teaching of Hadith after the Death of al-Muʿtaṣim
	Chapter 72: His Experience with al-Wāthiq
	Chapter 73: His Experience with al-Mutawakkil
	Chapter 74: His Refusing Ibn Ṭāhir’s Request to Visit Him
	Chapter 75: What Happened When His Two Sons and His Uncle Accepted Gifts from the Authorities
	Chapter 76: Some Major Figures Who Capitulated to the Inquisition
	Chapter 77: His Comments on Those Who Capitulated
	Chapter 78: Those Who Defied the Inquisition
	Chapter 79: His Final Illness
	Chapter 80: His Date of Death and His Age When He Died
	Chapter 81: How His Body Was Washed and Shrouded
	Chapter 82: On Who Sought to Pray over Him
	Chapter 83: The Number of People Who Prayed over Him
	Chapter 84: The Praising of the Sunnah and the Decrying of Innovation That Took Place during His Funeral Procession
	Chapter 85: The Crowds That Gathered around His Grave
	Chapter 86: His Estate
	Chapter 87: Reactions to His Death
	Chapter 88: Reaction to His Death on the Part of the Jinns
	Chapter 89: On the Condolences Offered to His Family
	Chapter 90: A Selection of the Verses Spoken in Praise of Him in Life and in Commemoration of Him in Death
	Chapter 91: His Dreams
	Chapter 92: Dreams in Which He Appeared to Others
	Chapter 93: Dreams in Which He Was Mentioned
	Chapter 94: The Benefit of Visiting His Grave
	Chapter 95: The Benefit of Being Buried Near Him
	Chapter 96: The Punishments That Befall Anyone Who Attacks Him
	Chapter 97: What to Think about Anyone Who Speaks Ill of Him
	Chapter 98: Why We Chose His Legal School over the Others
	Chapter 99: On the Excellence of His Associates and Successors
	Chapter 100: His Most Prominent Associates and Their Successors from His Time to Our Own
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