What scholars from the Pious Predecessors said about Imaam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal.
👤Ibraaheem al-Harbee said:
“I saw Aboo ’Abdullaah and it was as if Allâh had gathered for him the knowledge of the earlier and later people together"
👤Ibn Raahawaih said:
“I used to sit with Ahmad and Ibn Ma’een and we would revise ahaadeeth. I would say, ‘What is the Fiqh of it? What is its explanation?’ And they would be silent — except Ahmad.”
👤Wakee’ and Hafs ibn Ghiyaath said: “None has come to Koofah the like of that youth,” meaning Ahmad Ibn Hanbal.
👤Yahyaa ibn Aadam said,
“Ahmad Ibn Hanbal is our Imaam.”
👤Yahyaa al-Qattaan said:
“No one has come to us the like of
these two, Ahmad and Yahyaa ibn Ma’een. And no one has come to me from Baghdaad more beloved to me than Ahmad ibn Hanbal.”
Book:Foundations Of The Sunnah
Imaam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal | Salafi Publications
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Pg.66