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Scholars

Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal

164-241 AH

Mu'assis - Founder

Imām of Ahl al-Sunnah, Master of the Islamic Sciences and Spiritual Subtleties

Abū Bakr al-Khallāl

234-311 AH

Mutaqaddimun - Early Era

Foremost systematizer of the school.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-Barbahārī

233 AH-329AH

Mutaqaddimun - Early Era

Author of "Sharh Al-Sunnah"

ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khiraqī

299-334 AH

Mutaqaddimun - Early Era

Master Jurist, Author of Mukhtaṣar al-Khiraqi

Al-Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā

380-458 AH

Mutaqaddimun - Early Era

Rukn al-Madhhab, Master Jurist and Theologian, author of Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt

Abū Ismāʿīl ʿ al-Anṣārī al-Harawī

396-481 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Athari Sufi, Scholar of Hadith, Author of Manazil al-Sa'irin.

ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī

470-561 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Jurist, Theologian, Sufi Master

Muwwafaq al-Dīn ibn Qudāmah

541-620 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Shaykh al-Islam, Master Jurist, Theologian, author of al-Mughni

Najm al-Dīn ibn Ḥamdān

603-695 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Jurist, legal theorist, and theologian.

Shams al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Qāwī al-Mardāwī

630-699 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Jurist, grammarian, and author of Manẓūmat al-Ādāb

ʿImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī

657-711 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Hanbali Athari Master of al-Faqr al-Muhammadi.

Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī

708-761 AH

Mutawassitun - Middle Era

Linguist Genius, Master Grammarian

ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Mardāwī

817-885 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Mufti, Author of Al-Inṣāf

Mujīr al-Dīn al-‘Ulaymi

860-928 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Scholar of Hadith, Orator, Author of Fath al-Rahman

Musa al-Hajjawi

895–968 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Mufti, Jurist, Codifier, Author of al-Iqna' and Zād al-Mustaqni

Ibn al-Najjār al-Futūḥī,

898–979 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Chief Judge, Codifier, author of Muntahā al-Irādāt

Marʿī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī al-Maqdisī

988-1033 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, theologian, author of Dalīl al-Ṭālib

Mansur al-Buhūti

1000-1051 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Master Jurist, Codifier of the Latter Era

ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Baʿlī

1005-1071 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Traditionist, Master Reciter, Author of Al-Ayn wal-Athar

Shams al-Dīn Ibn Balbān

1006-1083 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Scholar of Hadith, Author of Qalāʾid al-ʿIqyān

Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khalwatī

????-1088 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Theologian, and Sufi

Ibn Qāʿid al-Najdī

1022-1097 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, theologian, possessor of golden Hanbali chain.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baʿlī

1110-1192 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Jurist, Poet, author of Kashf al-Mukhaddarāt

Muṣṭafā b. Saʿd al-Ruhaybānī

1164-1243 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Mufti, Legal Master, Author of Maṭālib Ūlī al-Nuhā

ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Badrān

1280- 1346 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Author of one of the most coveted book of the Hanbai School of our time: Al-Madkhal.

Muṣṭafā b. Aḥmad al-Shaṭṭī

1348 AH

Muta'akhkhirun - Latter Era

Hanbali Mufti, Sufi, author of al-Nuqūl al-Sharʿiyya

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