Hanbalism

Also known as Hanbali school, Hanbali

one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam

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Hanbalism is one of the four major schools of Islamic legal interpretation within Sunni Islam, offering its own approach to understanding religious law and practice. It matters because, like the other schools, it provides guidance to millions of Muslims on how to live according to their faith, and different Islamic communities may follow one school's interpretations over another.

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native label: المذهب الحنبلي
Commons category: Hanbali fiqh
inception: 0900-00-00

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The Hanbali school or Hanbalism is the smallest of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. Named after and based on the teachings of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the school belongs to the Ahl al-Hadith historical tradition.

Like the other Sunni schools, it primarily derives sharia from the Quran, hadith and views of Muhammad's companions. In cases where there is no clear answer in the sacred texts of Islam, the Hanbali school does not accept juristic discretion or customs of a community as sound bases to derive Islamic law on their own—methods that the Hanafi and Maliki schools accept. Most Hanbalis traditionally adhere to the Athari school of theology.