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The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal / / Ibn al-Jawzī.

The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 H/1200 AD), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profoundknowledge o...

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Superior document:	Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:	al-Jawzī, Ibn,
MitwirkendeR:	Cooperson, Michael, Fowden, Garth,
Place / Publishing House:	New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016
Year of Publication:	2016
Language:	English
Series:	Library of Arabic Literature ; 3
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479886241.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479886241 Cover
Physical Description:	1 online resource
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes to the Introduction
The Life of IBN Ḥanbal
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 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
Chapter 51. His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor
Chapter 52. His Humility
Chapter 53. His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of
Chapter 54. His Preference for Solitude
Chapter 55. His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed
Chapter 56. His Fear of God
Chapter 57. His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness
Chapter 58. His Devotions
Chapter 59. His Performances of the Pilgrimage
Chapter 60. His Extemporaneous Prayers and Supplications
Chapter 61. His Manifestations of Grace and the Effectiveness of His Prayers
Chapter 62. The Number of Wives He Had
Chapter 63. His Concubines
Chapter 64. The Number of His Children
Chapter 65. The Lives of His Children and Descendants
Chapter 66. How and Why the Inquisition Began
Chapter 67. His Experience with al-Maʾmūn
Chapter 68. What Happened after the Death of al-Maʾmūn
Chapter 69. His Experience with al-Muʿtaṣim
Chapter 70. His Reception by the Elders after His Release, and Their Prayers for Him
Chapter 71. His Teaching of Hadith after the Death of al-Muʿtaṣim
Chapter 72. His Experience with al-Wāthiq
Chapter 73. His Experience with al-Mutawakkil
Chapter 74. His Refusing Ibn Ṭāhir’s Request to Visit Him
Chapter 75. What Happened When His Two Sons and His Uncle Accepted Gifts from the Authorities
Chapter 76. Some Major Figures Who Capitulated to the Inquisition
Chapter 77. His Comments on Those Who Capitulated
Chapter 78. Those Who Defied the Inquisition
Chapter 79. His Final Illness
Chapter 80. His Date of Death and His Age When He Died
Chapter 81. How His Body Was Washed and Shrouded
Chapter 82. On Who Sought to Pray over Him
Chapter 83. The Number of People Who Prayed over Him
Chapter 84. The Praising of the Sunnah and the Decrying of Innovation That Took Place during His Funeral Procession
Chapter 85. The Crowds That Gathered around His Grave
Chapter 86. His Estate
Chapter 87. Reactions to His Death
Chapter 88. Reaction to His Death on the Part of the Jinns
Chapter 89. On the Condolences Offered to His Family
Chapter 90. A Selection of the Verses Spoken in Praise of Him in Life and in Commemoration of Him in Death
Chapter 91. His Dreams
Chapter 92. Dreams in Which He Appeared to Others
Chapter 93. Dreams in Which He Was Mentioned
Chapter 94. The Benefit of Visiting His Grave
Chapter 95. The Benefit of Being Buried Near Him
Chapter 96. The Punishments That Befall Anyone Who Attacks Him
Chapter 97. What to Think about Anyone Who Speaks Ill of Him
Chapter 98. Why We Chose His Legal School over the Others
Chapter 99. On the Excellence of His Associates and Successors
Chapter 100. His Most Prominent Associates and Their Successors from His Time to Our Own
[Colophons]
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Translator
The Library of Arabic Literature

The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal / / Ibn al-Jawzī.

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