Hanbalism

Hanbalism is one of the four main schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, named after the scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal of Baghdad, who died in 855. It formed in the 9th century, built on the work of his students, who collected his legal opinions and the traditions he transmitted. The school gives great weight to the Quran and the hadith, the reports of the Prophet's sayings and actions, and is wary of reasoning based on personal opinion. Hanbali scholars like Ibn Taymiyya in the 14th century were influential, and the Hanbali school is the most conservative of the four. It is the dominant legal tradition in Saudi Arabia and is also followed in parts of the Gulf.

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