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Ahmad ibn Hanbal

780 - 855

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Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; November 780 – 2 August 855) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, ascetic and eponym of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence—one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam. The most highly influential and active scholar during his lifetime, Ibn Hanbal went on to become "one of the most venerated" intellectual figures in Islamic history, who has had a "profound influence affecting almost every area" of the traditionalist perspective within Sunni Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad ibn Hanbal has received more than 1,662,742 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Ahmad ibn Hanbal is the 124th most popular writer (up from 162nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Writer.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal is most famous for being the founder of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence. He was a disciple of the founder of the Hanafi school, Abu Hanifa.

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Among writers, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ranks 124 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, Charlotte Brontë, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Alexandre Dumas fils, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 780, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ranks 2. Before him is Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. After him are Pope Eugene II, Pope Valentine, Rabanus Maurus, Frederick of Utrecht, Odo I, Count of Orléans, and Theodote. Among people deceased in 855, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ranks 1. After him are Lothair I, Pope Leo IV, and Boso the Elder.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ranks 12 out of 384. Before him are Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Sarah (-1803), Abu Hanifa (698), Sennacherib (-740), Ashurbanipal (-685), and Al-Kindi (801). After him are Ibn al-Haytham (965), Mani (216), Rabia of Basra (710), Nur ad-Din (1116), Zaha Hadid (1950), and Al-Masudi (896).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ranks 1. After him are Al-Masudi (896), Fuzûlî (1494), Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn Khallikan (1211), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), and Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718).

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