Do you know some surprising facts about the 4 imaams of fiqh that others might not have known?
Imaam Abu Hanifah
Imaam Malik ibn Anas
Imaam Shafi'ie
Imaam Ahmad
Did you know that Imaam Malik wanted to be a singer when he was young?
You can find out more about his life off the following link insha'Allaah:
Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
His father was called Muhammad, a brave mujaahid who fought for the muslims - he passed away [in his 30's or 40's] while Ahmad was only a small child. So he was an orphan, and his mother helped him become who we know him as today.
The reason why he was called ibn Hanbal (son of Hanbal) was because his grandfather was also a famous figure, and he was called this. Therefore Ahmad was named after his grandfather.
He was an only son, and had no brothers or sisters.
He was haafiz of Qur'aan and knew thousands of hadith off by heart at the age of 14.
In his lifetime - he knew a million hadith and he said that whenever he learnt a hadith, he would try to put it into practise.
He used to recite the entire Qur'an within a week. He never left this within this lifetime.
He never got married in his life when lookaftering his mother, but when she passed away - he got married at the age of 40.
He was poor and never had enough money to travel to hajj, so he walked by foot all the way from Baghdad, Iraq - to Makkah and Medinah to make hajj. He met Imaam Shafi'ie there for the first time.
A karamaat (miracle) of Imaam Ahmad occured when a man or boy came to his house and asked Imaam Ahmad to make dua' (supplication/prayer) for his mother because she was paralysed.
Ahmad said: "Wallaahi, i need dua' from you and your mother more than you and your mother need dua' from me." he said this out of modesty and humbleness.
It seemed that Imaam Ahmad refused to make the dua'. So the man or boy went back home, opened the door, and saw his mother standing up. He was shocked, so he went back to Imaam Ahmad and one of his sons told the man that soon after you left, Imaam Ahmad made wudhu and made dua' for your mother.
Last edited by - Qatada -; 09-18-2006 at 09:01 PM.
^ Subhanallah!! Jazakallah Khair brother for posting these up
Mashallah! What a beautiful thread!
May Allah (swt) reward you for this!
I'm anxiously awaiting for more posts...
JazakAllah khair for your time to post these.
| — | Guy who wrecked himself |
Masha'allah this is an excellent thread. Keep it coming bro
Ahmad ibn Hanbal's family life.
His Mother
Ahmad loved his mother alot, and wouldn't do anything to upset her.
He would wake up early in the morning to learn to go to the masjid so he could join the study circles early. But his mother would tell him to wait for the azaan because she felt it was too dark for him to travel alone. So he would sit down and say "Oh my mother, okay i will."
Some of his colleagues wanted to visit a scholar [Jareer ibn Abdul Hameed.] The scholar was located on the other side of the river of Baghdad (Euphrates river.) It was dangerous to cross because a person could sink and drown, or fall in and drown.
He asked his mother if he could go, but she asked him not to. So he obeyed her, even though he would love to meet him.
Taqwa (fear of Allaah) in his Youth
Teaching the officials to fear Allaah
When he was 15/16yrs old, his uncle recorded what was going on in the city. His uncle passed Ahmad the reports and told him to give the reports to the Wali of the city.
Month's passed by, but the Wali never recieved ther eports. The Wali became angry and impatient, he asked Ahmad's uncle where the reports were.
His uncle was shocked and said that he had sent the reports to Ahmad. So they both called Ahmad and asked; "Where are the reports Ahmad?"
Ahmad said "did you expect me to give him the reports?"
"What else did you do with them?"
"I took them all, and threw them in the river of Baghdad." said Ahmad.
"inaa lillaahi wa ina alayhi raji'oon, these are valuable reports."
"subhan Allaah!" the wali said, "this boy doesn't want to do something which he thinks is haraam. So what about us?"
The Love letters
When Harun-ar-Rasheed used to go to his palace outside Baghdad, he used to take his soldiers with him.
At that time, it was well known that Ahmad could write, so the wive's of the soldiers would ask him to read their husband's love letters out to them [because the women couldn't read] - they trusted him because of his piety.
After hearing the letter's, they would ask Ahmad to write a letter back to their husbands. He would do so, except when the wife said to him to write; "I love you" , "I miss you" , "I want to see you" etc. he would not write it.
He would not write anything which he thought might cause confusion and fitnah among the people.
His Marriage Life
He got married at the age of 40 after his mother passed away.
Imaam Ahmad's first wife was called Aa'isha, in a marriage which lasted for 30years. She gave birth to a son called Saalih, so her kunya (nickname) was Um Saalih.
When Imaam Ahmad spoke to his student's he told them - "I lived with Um Saalih for 30yrs, never has my voice and her voice rose against each other, never have I disagreed with her on anything."
After Aa'isha [Um Saalih] passed away, he married Raihaana and she gave birth to their son called Abdullah.
When Raihaana died, he got married again and had 2 children [when he was aged 74.]
Out of his 3 marriages - he had; Saalih, Abdullah, Zaynab, hasan, hussein, (both died after birth) but Allaah blessed him with another Hasan, Muhammad and Saeed.
Saeed later on became the judge of Kufa, and his two son's Abdullah and Saalih became the best scholars within their time.
Imaam Ahmad died at the age of 75 (may Allaah Almighty have mercy on him.)
Last edited by - Qatada -; 09-18-2006 at 09:42 PM.
Subhân Allâh, this thread is really beneficial.. Barak Allâhu fîk akhî..
أم ذي عينين كبيرين 
صفية و عمر 
If anyone want's to download the lecture i heard all these fact's from, please check this link insha'Allaah:
http://www.islamicboard.com/islamic-...tml#post535930
Or this:
http://www.kalamullah.com/hesham-alawadi.html
format_quote Originally Posted by Fi_Sabilillah
jazakallah-khair bro ..very intersting and something i have lernt as well..
I forgot, this is also another top series on the 4 imaams by Muhammad al shareef:
http://www.islamicboard.com/535752-post27.html
http://www.kalamullah.com/muhammad-alshareef.html
And about Imaam Ahmad's ordeal by Safi Khan (i think he's Muhammad al shareef's friend):
http://www.islamicboard.com/islamic-...-new-post.html
Both lectures are done by different lecturer's, and their both excellent masha'Allaah.
Eid present for everyone lol
Last edited by - Qatada -; 10-27-2006 at 08:32 PM.
and indeed and excellent eid gift
i wanna know more though so keep posting
ma'salamah
If someone asked imaam Malik question's which had a bad intention, for example - "How does Allaah establish Himself on the throne?" - he would ask someone to beat you up, because matters like this can lead to dangerous/controversial aqeedah issues.
When a person came to his house, his servant would open the door to ask if the person wanted fatwa, or if they wanted to hear hadith. If the person wanted a fatwa or hear a hadith, imam malik would wear his best clothes, put on a turban - put lots of incents on in the room and then come to narrate to the person hadith etc.
He wouldn't go to the market place, or eat in public. Because he wanted to keep up the respect/izza' of the scholars.
Imaam Malik's favourite fruit was banana.
Imaam Malik had some contact with a servant of Abdullah ibn 'Umar - the son of 'Umar bin Khattaab [the companion of the Messenger of Allaah [peace be upon him] (may Allaah Almighty be pleased with them.) So he had some fiqh off Abdullah ibn 'Umar (ra.)
Imaam Malik was a teacher of Imaam Shafi'ie until he (Malik) died. Then Imaam Shafi'ie moved and started studying under Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani - a famous student of Imaam Abu Hanifah.
Last edited by - Qatada -; 10-24-2006 at 12:25 PM.
Mashallah great info!
JazakAllah khair bro!
(My fave fruit is banana too.
| — | Guy who wrecked himself |
thsnks guys i just heard the lectiures, cant believe that imam malik wanted to be a singer!!! May Allah bless u all
H A N U
The next part will be about the torture Imaam Ahmad went through, in detail insha'Allaah. When you read it, just try to imagine you're there - watching everything. And imagine the emotions and thoughts that must be going through Imaam Ahmad..
jazak Allaahu khayr.
Last edited by - Qatada -; 10-26-2006 at 01:50 PM.
Khalqul Qur'an (the Creation of the Qur'an) - The Beginning.
If it wasn’t for this event in the life of Imaam Ahmad, he would have been classed as a normal faqeeh (scholar of fiqh) and none of us would really know who he is, compared to how much we know him today.
In this ordeal – Imaam Ahmad was fought not by one, not two – but three consecutive rulers, within his lifetime.
[Through the lives of Al-Ma’mool, then his brother – Al-Mu’tassim, then Al-Mu’tassims son [Al-waafiq]]
In the ordeal, he was beaten, imprisoned, tortured. He bled everywhere, and this torture was one of the factors that lead to his death.
One of Ahmad ibn Hanbals contemporaries said that if an elephant was put through the level of torture that ImamAhmad was put through, the elephant would die.
The doctor that checked up on him (after his release from prison) said, “how could this human being survive” due to the amount of torture he had received. “It is as if he was whipped 1000 times”
One scholar said; (Arabic: Wara’) [piety, devoutness] only survived in the ummah/nation of Muhammad (sal Allaahu alayhi waSalam) because of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
The Fitnah – Khalqul Qur’an* (creation of the Qur’an)
The first person to start the idea of khalqul qur’an was a man called: al-Jaa’ ibn dirham. (?)
*Khalqul qur’an (creation of the qur’an.) The Mu’tazilah who believed in this ideology said that the Qur’an was a creation of Allaah, the same way us human’s are the creation of Allaah. They even said that the attributes of Allaah are created, they said He existed before His attributes and they said speech existed after Allaah, therefore they believed that this Qur’an must be created too.
They believed that Allaah is first, and His speech is second. Which obviously isn’t the view of Ahlus sunnah (the followers of sunnah) because we believe that Allaah is Eternal and always has had those attributes, and His speech is one of His Attributes.
More info: The Qur’aan was revealed by Allaah, not created
http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?re...n=eng&txt=qadr
This is why it is called Khalq (created) ul (the) quran.
al-Jaa’ ibn darham promoted this idea which was unacceptable to the scholars, because Allah never mentioned this in the qur’an. This wasn’t backed with proof, so it was something new in the religion. He started to promote this idea at a small level.
Hisham ibn Abdil Malik, the ‘Ummaya ruler ordered that he be killed, so he was killed on 732 (Christian calendar.) I think 132/3 Hijri (AH)
10years after that, the fitnah came again. Al Jahm bin Safwan.- he said the Qur’an was created. He said that the Qur’an came after, revealed to Muhammad sal Allaahu alayhi wasalam, pronounced by our mouths – then put on paper, therefore it must be created. He was also killed (742 Christian year.)
These people were dangerous, because they didn’t keep these ideas to themselves – but they promoted these false ideas.
To be continued...
Khalqul Qur'an: The Creation of the Qur'an - Part 2
As time passed, their idea continued to be promoted by other people, after Jahm ibn Safwan was killed. By now, the dynasty of the ‘Ummaya was over, and the Abbasiya dynasty was in authority. (Remember Imaam Shafi’ie was put in prison? That’s because some people were already thinking of overthrowing the ‘Ummaya government, and they were successful in this.)
A third person came who was called Bishr Al Mireesi, he started to promote the idea of Jahm and ibn darham. Harun ar-Rasheed (now the khalifah) made an oath that if he saw him, he would kill him.
Bishr al Mireesi found out about this, so he ran away and hid. No-one was able to catch him, and after a while Harun al-Rasheed died.
His son Al-Ma’moon then came into power. Bishr then came out of hiding, and met Al-Ma’moon (the son of Harun al-Rashid.) He started discussing his views with Al-Ma’moon and gave his evidences and persuaded him.. so Al-Ma’moon fell into the trap of believing Bishr.
In 826 (Christian year) Al-Ma’moon announced that he believes that the Qur’an is created, but he never told anyone to believe in that. But Bishr persuaded Al-Ma’moon again and told him that you have to tell society to believe what you believe. So in 832 he began forcing society to believe in the creation of the Qur’an.
He told his guards/soldiers – make sure that all the scholars/judges who are working for the state believe in the khalqul Qur’an (creation of the qur’an.)
All the judges/senior scholars, over 700 in number compromised, except a few among them. One of these scholars was Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
After the majority of the senior scholars/judges accepted the ‘creation of the quran.’ Al-Ma’moon asked his representative in Iraq to gather the prominent scholars to come in society to interrogate them and to ask them (the few who never fell into the trap) ‘what do you say about the quran.’ If the scholar didn’t understand the question, the following question would be asked; “do you think it’s created or not” – if you say its created, go home, if not – stay here.
Isshaaq ibn Ibrahim, a representative of Al-Ma’moon gathered the scholars. He gathered about 7 scholars, and asked them “what do you say about the quran, makhlooq (created) or not?”
One of the scholars said “I will say whatever Al-ma’moon believes in.” Isshaaq said, “al-ma’moon did not ask me to ask you what al-ma’moon believes in, he asked me to ask you what you believe in.” Then the scholar gave up, and said that I believe the quran was created.
Isshaaq then brought some other scholars, among them Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Ahmad said, “the qur’an is the word of Allah, and nothing in the quran says that it was created.”
Isshaaq ibn Ibrahim was not ordered to do anything, except to write the answers in a letter and send it to Al-Ma’moon. Al-Ma’moon would then take the appropriate decision. A letter was then sent and it said that all the scholars that I have asked have agreed except 4...
Alot of the Imam links to Kalamullah dont seem to work anyone got any other links for them?
mashaAllah, looks like we've got somethin in common coz i luv bananaformat_quote Originally Posted by Fi_Sabilillah
j/khayr bro
format_quote Originally Posted by IsaAbdullah
I've noticed some aren't working for me either off the thread that i posted, but they work off the site alhamdulillah:
http://www.kalamullah.com/hesham-alawadi.html
http://www.kalamullah.com/muhammad-alshareef.html
http://www.kalamullah.com/safi-khan.html
Last edited by - Qatada -; 10-27-2006 at 08:31 PM.
wow masha Allah bro, Allah ya7fadhak, so beneficial!!
Their kunya was Abu Abdillah except for Imaam Abu Haneefah, rahimahum Allah.
wassalaam
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