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HARUN YAHYA

lands during the emergence of the Hanbali school. For that
reason, his school has found its feet mainly in Saudi Arabia.
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal’s most important work is al-
Musnad.
He specialized in knowledge of the hadiths. It is reported
that he had memorized a million hadith al-sharif. He narrated
30,000 hadiths in al-Musnad. According to the great scholar
Kohistani, he narrated 50,700 traditions. His piety, taqwa, and
high morality were above all praise.

Subjects Imagined To Represent Sources of
Disagreement among the Schools Are
Actually Sources of Mercy for the Muslims
Differences among the schools of the Ahl al-Sunnah wal
Jama‘ah are actually of enormous benefit to the Islamic world,
rather than being damaging to it. Each imam of the four legal
schools taught his own ijtihad, but they never attempted to
eradicate one another out of mutual hostility. As stated in the
hadiths, it is clear that a disagreement based on mutual respect
will be a mercy, and history confirms that this is indeed the
case. The way that a member of one school is able to imitate
another school when necessary is the clearest indication of
this.
Indeed, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz says this on the subject:
“I would be unwilling for the community of the Messenger
of Allah not to disagree over matters of fiqh, because it
would be difficult for people if they all agreed on a similar
view. If someone abided by the words of one of them, that
would be the Sunnah for him.” (Muhammad Abu Zahra,
Tareekh al-Madhahib al-Islamiyyah)
It is a known fact in the belief system of the Ahl al-Sunnah

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