Ahmad ibn Hanbal dies in Baghdad, and crowds fill the streets for his funeral; the Hanbali school formed from his teaching prizes the Qur'an and the hadith over speculative theology, and his Musnad gathers some twenty-seven thousand traditions.
Tagged: Hanbali Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 855 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Hanbali
- Key figures
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Key texts
- Al-Musnad
Connections
- The mihna; endured
Primary Sources
- Al-Musnad
Secondary Sources
- Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2009)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0224; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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