Frontmatter
Letter from the General Editor
Table of Contents
Introduction
Note on the Text
Notes to the Frontmatter
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ibn Ḥanbal's Birth and Family Background
Chapter 2: His Lineage
Chapter 3: His Childhood
Chapter 4: The Beginning of His Search for Knowledge and the Journey He Undertook for That Purpose
Chapter 5: The Major Men of Learning Whom He Met and on Whose Authority He Recited Hadith
Chapter 6: His Deference to His Teachers and His Respect for Learning
Chapter 7: His Eagerness to Learn and His Single-Minded Pursuit of Knowledge
Chapter 8: His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart
Chapter 9: His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding
Chapter 10: Praise of Him by His Teachers
Chapter 11: Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him
Chapter 12: All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him
Chapter 13: Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age
Chapter 14: Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well
Chapter 15: A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings
Chapter 16: Reports That al-Khaḍir Spoke in His Praise
Chapter 17: Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God
Chapter 18: Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing
Chapter 19: His Fame
Chapter 20: His Creed
Chapter 21: His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims
Chapter 22: His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah
Chapter 23: His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them
Chapter 24: His Seeking of Blessings and Cures Using the Qurʾan and Water from the Well of Zamzam, as Well as Some Hair and a Bowl That Belonged to the Prophet
Chapter 25: His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions
Chapter 26: His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching
Chapter 27: His Works
Chapter 28: His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge
Chapter 29: His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words
Chapter 30: His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One's Pious Austerities
Chapter 31: His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness
Chapter 32: His Remarks on Different Subjects
Chapter 33: Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him
Chapter 34: His Correspondence
Chapter 35: His Appearance and Bearing
Chapter 36: His Imposing Presence
Chapter 37: His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity
Chapter 38: His Kindness and His Consideration for Others
Chapter 39: His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive
Chapter 40: His Property and Means of Subsistence
Chapter 41: His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress
Chapter 42: His Generosity
Chapter 43: His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return
Chapter 44: His Renunciation
Chapter 45: His House and Furniture
Chapter 46: His Diet
Chapter 47: His Indulgences
Chapter 48: His Clothing
Chapter 49: His Scrupulosity
Chapter 50: His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms
Index
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