At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni (Hanbali)
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Scripture and its sciencesDissent, heresy and freethought
Overview
Musaddad ibn Musarhad wrote to the imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal asking him to write to him the Sunna of the Messenger of God ﷺ, when the matter of the trial over saying that the Qur'an was created and what people disagreed on had become unclear to him. 1
Ahmad's reply
Ahmad, when the letter arrived, said that he wept, and that its bearer claimed he had spent great wealth on knowledge and yet did not find his way to the Sunna of the Messenger of God. 1 Ahmad wrote him a letter counselling him to fear God, to keep to the Sunna and the community, and ordering him not to prefer anything to the Qur'an. 2
People and things also explored
The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Blind imitation (taqlid)· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an
Sources
- al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p.52
- al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p.53
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “مسدد بن مسرهد”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/musaddad-ibn-musarhad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.