Mysore Muslim weddings offer a day of excitement and fun to all the participants. Among the Islamic sect -based Karnataka Muslim matrimony hanbali school of law is one another sect. Atahis school of law named after imam Ahmed bin hanbal who was born in 855,164 hijri at Baghdad. This school of law popularly known as hanbali, is one of the four schools of law or fiqh or religious Sunni Islam. Salafi creed of aqeedah is based on this madhab of Sunni Islam. The jurisprudence school was started by the students of imam Ahmed bin hanbal. Imam Ahmad became the leading authority on the orthodoxy doctrine of Islam, which represented the first three blessed generations of Islam, untainted with foreign dogmas. Ahmad’s doctrinal influence can be measured by the fact that, out of the four traditional schools, the hanbali school alone maintained its own theological view, unlike the Hanafi school maturidi doctrine, or the shafi and Maliki schools that adopted the ash’ari doctrine. The secret for this was the depth and length at which Ahmad spoke in matters of theology, due to the prevailing unorthodoxy in his age, headed by the Mutazilites.
Hanbali jurisprudence is popular in the Arabian Peninsula. Although the students of Islam throughout the world study and may choose to observe its conclusions about Islamic practice. The hanbali madhab is predominant mainly in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Historically, the hanbali madhab has always been known for having very less followers comparatively to the remaining schools. After the demise of imam Ahmed, the hanbalis grew stronger in Baghdad; hanbalis are known for having an outstanding character, fearlessness and eagerness for enjoying the good and forbidding the evil. Abdul-Qadir al-jailani was a noted Sunni hanbali preacher, Sufi sheikh and the figure head of the qadri Sufi order. His contribution to the Muslim world earned him the title” Al gause-al- Azam” (the supreme helper).Imam Ahmed bin hanbal wrote three books, kitab taaturrasool, kitabul nasique wal mansooq and kitabul alal.
