Chapter 80. His Date of Death and His Age When He Died

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xiii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction xx
6. Notes to the Introduction xxx
7. The Life of IBN Ḥanbal
8. Chapter 1. Ibn Ḥanbal’s Birth and Family Background 9
9. Chapter 2. His Lineage 10
10. Chapter 3. His Childhood 11
11. Chapter 4. The Beginning of His Search for Knowledge and the Journey He Undertook for That Purpose 13
12. Chapter 5. The Major Men of Learning Whom He Met and on Whose Authority He Recited Hadith 20
13. Chapter 6. His Deference to His Teachers and His Respect for Learning 21
14. Chapter 7. His Eagerness to Learn and His Single-Minded Pursuit of Knowledge 23
15. Chapter 8. His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart 23
16. Chapter 9. His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding 26
17. Chapter 10. Praise of Him by His Teachers 30
18. Chapter 11. Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him 42
19. Chapter 12. All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him 43
20. Chapter 13. Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age 43
21. Chapter 14. Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well 62
22. Chapter 15. A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings 65
23. Chapter 17. Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God 66
24. Chapter 18. Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing 67
25. Chapter 19. His Fame 70
26. Chapter 20. His Creed 74
27. Chapter 21. His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims 82
28. Chapter 22. His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah 84
29. Chapter 23. His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them 85
30. 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 89
31. Chapter 25. His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions 89
32. Chapter 26. His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching 91
33. Chapter 27. His Works 92
34. Chapter 28. His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge 93
35. Chapter 29. His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words 94
36. Chapter 30. His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One’s Pious Austerities 95
37. Chapter 31. His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness 96
38. Chapter 32. His Remarks on Different Subjects 99
39. Chapter 33. Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him 101
40. Chapter 34. His Correspondence 102
41. Chapter 35. His Appearance and Bearing 103
42. Chapter 36. His Imposing Presence 106
43. Chapter 37. His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity 106
44. Chapter 38. His Kindness and His Consideration for Others 107
45. Chapter 39. His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive 113
46. Chapter 40. His Property and Means of Subsistence 115
47. Chapter 41. His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress 117
48. Chapter 42. His Generosity 128
49. Chapter 43. His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return 130
50. Chapter 44. His Renunciation 131
51. Chapter 45. His House and Furniture 134
52. Chapter 46. His Diet 135
53. Chapter 47. His Indulgences 137
54. Chapter 48. His Clothing 137
55. Chapter 49. His Scrupulosity 140
56. Chapter 50. His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority 148
57. Chapter 51. His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor 149
58. Chapter 52. His Humility 150
59. Chapter 53. His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of 153
60. Chapter 54. His Preference for Solitude 154
61. Chapter 55. His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed 155
62. Chapter 56. His Fear of God 156
63. Chapter 57. His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness 157
64. Chapter 58. His Devotions 158
65. Chapter 59. His Performances of the Pilgrimage 160
66. Chapter 60. His Extemporaneous Prayers and Supplications 162
67. Chapter 61. His Manifestations of Grace and the Effectiveness of His Prayers 164
68. Chapter 62. The Number of Wives He Had 166
69. Chapter 63. His Concubines 168
70. Chapter 64. The Number of His Children 170
71. Chapter 65. The Lives of His Children and Descendants 170
72. Chapter 66. How and Why the Inquisition Began 174
73. Chapter 67. His Experience with al-Maʾmūn 175
74. Chapter 68. What Happened after the Death of al-Maʾmūn 179
75. Chapter 69. His Experience with al-Muʿtaṣim 181
76. Chapter 70. His Reception by the Elders after His Release, and Their Prayers for Him 199
77. Chapter 71. His Teaching of Hadith after the Death of al-Muʿtaṣim 204
78. Chapter 72. His Experience with al-Wāthiq 205
79. Chapter 73. His Experience with al-Mutawakkil 212
80. Chapter 74. His Refusing Ibn Ṭāhir’s Request to Visit Him 234
81. Chapter 75. What Happened When His Two Sons and His Uncle Accepted Gifts from the Authorities 236
82. Chapter 76. Some Major Figures Who Capitulated to the Inquisition 241
83. Chapter 77. His Comments on Those Who Capitulated 242
84. Chapter 78. Those Who Defied the Inquisition 246
85. Chapter 79. His Final Illness 252
86. Chapter 80. His Date of Death and His Age When He Died 259
87. Chapter 81. How His Body Was Washed and Shrouded 260
88. Chapter 82. On Who Sought to Pray over Him 261
89. Chapter 83. The Number of People Who Prayed over Him 262
90. Chapter 84. The Praising of the Sunnah and the Decrying of Innovation That Took Place during His Funeral Procession 263
91. Chapter 85. The Crowds That Gathered around His Grave 264
92. Chapter 86. His Estate 264
93. Chapter 87. Reactions to His Death 264
94. Chapter 88. Reaction to His Death on the Part of the Jinns 265
95. Chapter 89. On the Condolences Offered to His Family 266
96. Chapter 90. A Selection of the Verses Spoken in Praise of Him in Life and in Commemoration of Him in Death 268
97. Chapter 91. His Dreams 269
98. Chapter 92. Dreams in Which He Appeared to Others 270
99. Chapter 93. Dreams in Which He Was Mentioned 280
100. Chapter 94. The Benefit of Visiting His Grave 295
101. Chapter 95. The Benefit of Being Buried Near Him 297
102. Chapter 96. The Punishments That Befall Anyone Who Attacks Him 299
103. Chapter 97. What to Think about Anyone Who Speaks Ill of Him 306
104. Chapter 98. Why We Chose His Legal School over the Others 307
105. Chapter 99. On the Excellence of His Associates and Successors 313
106. Chapter 100. His Most Prominent Associates and Their Successors from His Time to Our Own 315
107. [Colophons] 327
108. Notes 328
109. Glossary of Names and Terms 390
110. Bibliography 402
111. Further Reading 414
112. Index 415
113. About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 438
114. About the Translator 439
115. The Library of Arabic Literature 440