The life of Ibn Ḥanbal /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201 (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Cooperson, Michael (Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:	Library of Arabic literature.
Subjects:	Ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, > 780-855. Islamic law > Biography. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The Life of IBN Hanbal
Ibn Hanbal's Birth and Family Background
His Lineage
His Childhood
The Beginning of His Search for Knowledge and the Journey He Undertook for That Purpose
The Major Men of Learning Whom He Met and on Whose Authority He Recited Hadith
His Deference to His Teachers and His Respect for Learning
His Eagerness to Learn and His Single-Minded Pursuit of Knowledge
His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart
His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding
Praise of Him by His Teachers
Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him
All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him
Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age
Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well
A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings
Reports That al-Khadir Spoke in His Praise
Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God
Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing
His Fame
His Creed
His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims
His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah
His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them
His Seeking of Blessings and Cures Using the Qur'an and Water from the Well of Zamzam, as Well as Some Hair and a Bowl That Belonged to the Prophet
His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions
His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching
His Works
His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge
His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words
His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One's Pious Austerities
His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness
His Remarks on Different Subjects
Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him
His Correspondence
His Appearance and Bearing
His Imposing Presence
His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity
His Kindness and His Consideration for Others
His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive
His Property and Means of Subsistence
His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress
His Generosity
His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return
His Renunciation
His House and Furniture
His Diet
His Indulgences
His Clothing
His Scrupulosity
His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority
His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor
His Humility
His Accepting invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of
His Preference for Solitude
His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed
His Fear of God
His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness
His Devotions
His Performances of the Pilgrimage
His Extemporaneous Prayers and Supplications
His Manifestations of Grace and the Effectiveness of His Prayers
The Number of Wives He Had
His Concubines
The Number of His Children
The Lives of His Children and Descendants
How and Why the Inquisition Began
His Experience with al-Ma'mun
What Happened after the Death of al-Ma'mun
His Experience with al-Mu'tasim
His Reception by the Elders after His Release, and Their Prayers for Him
His Teaching of Hadith after the Death of al-Mu'tasim
His Experience with al-Wathiq
His Experience with al-Mutawakkil
His Refusing Ibn Tahir's Request to Visit Him
What Happened When His Two Sons and His Uncle Accepted Gifts from the Authorities
Some Major Figures Who Capitulated to the Inquisition
His Comments on Those Who Capitulated
Those Who Defied the Inquisition
His Final Illness
His Date of Death and His Age When He Died
How His Body Was Washed and Shrouded
On Who Sought to Pray over Him
The Number of People Who Prayed over Him
The Praising of the Sunnah and the Decrying of Innovation That Took Place during His Funeral Procession
The Crowds That Gathered around His Grave
His Estate
Reactions to His Death
Reaction to His Death on the Part of the Jinns
On the Condolences Offered to His Family
A Selection of the Verses Spoken in Praise of Him in Life and in Commemoration of Him in Death
His Dreams
Dreams in Which He Appeared to Others
Dreams in Which He Was Mentioned
The Benefit of Visiting His Grave
The Benefit of Being Buried Near Him
The Punishments That Befall Anyone Who Attacks Him
What to Think about Anyone Who Speaks Ill of Him
Why We Chose His Legal School over the Others
On the Excellence of His Associates and Successors
His Most Prominent Associates and Their Successors from His Time to Our Own.