A collector of hadith who founded the Hanbalite school of law, and represented the traditionalist form of theology that rejected the arguments of kalam (speculative theology) in favor of the acceptance of doctrine on the basis of the Qur'an and Sunna alone. He was imprisoned during the Mihna because he refused to say that the Qur'an was created.
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