What is Ahmad ibn Hanbal?
{{Infobox religious biography |era=[[Islamic Golden Age]] |region=[[Iraq]] |influences=[[Al-Shafi‘i]],<ref name=autogenerated2 /> [[Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah]], [[‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani]] |works=''[[Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal]]'' <br> ''Radd ʿala’l-Ḏj̲ahmiyya wa’l-Zanādiḳa[disputed]'' |notable_ideas=[[Hanbali|Hanbali madhhab]] |occupation=[[Scholar of Islam]], ''[[muhaddith]]'' |main_interests=[[Fiqh]], [[Hadith]], [[Aqeedah]]<ref name=autogenerated2 /> |creed=[[Sunni]] |Maddhab=[[Hanbali]] |ethnicity=[[Arab]] |image=Ahmad_bin_Hanbal_Name.png |death_date=2 August 855 CE <br> 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal 241 AH (aged 74-75)<ref name=amin /> <br/> Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate<ref name=autogenerated2>A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsh by Edward Granville Browne – Page 295</ref> |birth_date=November 780 CE <br> Rabi-ul-Awwal 164 AH<ref name=amin>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibnamin.com/Manhaj/scholars.htm |title=مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل |publisher=Ibnamin.com |access-date=2010-03-21}}</ref> <br/> [[Baghdad]], [[Abbasid Caliphate]]<ref name=autogenerated1>The History of Persia by John Malcolm – Page 245</ref> |religion=[[Islam]] |title=[[Sheikh ul-Islam]], [[Imam]] |name=Abū ʿAbdillāh Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥanbal<br> {{lang|ar|أَبُو عَبْد ٱلله أَحْمَد ابْن مُحَمَّد ابْن حَنۢبَل}} |caption=Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal's name in [[Arabic calligraphy]] |influenced=Particularly jurists and mystics of the [[Hanbali school]] like [[Abu Dawood]], [[ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal]], [[Harb ibn Ismail al-Kirmani]],[[Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la]], [[Ibn Aqil]], [[Abdul-Qadir Al-Gilani]], [[Ibn al-Jawzi]], [[Ibn Qudamah]], [[Ibn Hamdan]], [[Ibn Taymiyyah]], [[Abdullah Al-Ansari]], [[Ibn Al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah]], [[Ibn Rajab]], [[Ibn Muflih]], [[Mar'i al-Karmi]] and [[Sulayman ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab]], [[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]] }} '''Imam Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu Abdullah Al-Shaibani''' (780–855 AD/164-241 AH) ({{lang-ar| بِنَحْمَدُ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الشِّيَّاڻي}}), was a famous Islamic figure,