Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab theologian and jurist (born 780)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian (780–855)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; was an Arab jurist and founder of the Hanbali school who is widely recognized as the scholar who memorized the most Hadiths in Islamic history. One of the most venerated Islamic intellectual figures, ibn…