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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 780 CE, Ibn Hanbal spent his youth studying hadith under multiple teachers and earned a reputation for an unmatched feat: memorizing over one million prophetic narrations, a claim no other scholar in Islamic history has made. He compiled al-Musnad, the largest hadith collection of its time, which later shaped the methodological framework of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. His life turned on the Mihna, the inquisition launched by Caliph al-Ma'mun to enforce Mu'tazili doctrine; Ibn Hanbal refused to recant the orthodox belief that the Quran was uncreated, suffering imprisonment and physical torture while living in poverty as a baker. His steadfastness made him a figure of veneration across Sunni schools — Sufi hagiographies later called him a saint — and he became the founder of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence. In recent centuries his name has been claimed by Wahhabism and Salafism, though scholars argue his medieval positions on relics, saints, and grave visitation diverged sharply from those movements. He died in 855.