Abdullah ibn mubarak pdf
Biography of imam ahmad bin hanbal.
'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
(118/736 - 181/797), a renowned Khorasani scholar
from Qadi 'Iyad'sTartib al-Madarik
translated by Aisha Bewley
He was the client of the Banu Tamim, then the Banu Hanifa.
His kunya was Abu 'Abdu'r-Rahman.
He listened to Ibn Abi Layla, Hisham ibn 'Urwa, al-A'mash, Sulayman at-Tamimi, Humayd at-Tawil, Yahya ibn Sa'id, Ibn 'Awn, Musa ibn 'Uqba, the two Sufyans, al-Awza'i, Ibn Abi Dhib, Malik, Ma'mar, Shu'ba, and Haywa ibn Shurayh, and he studied with Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', al-Layth and others.
Ibn Mahdi, 'Abdu'r-Razzaq, Yahya ibn al-Qattan, Ibn Wahb and others related from him.
Ibn Wahb said, "Ibn al-Mubarak listened to all our shaykhs except 'Amr ibn al-Harith."
Ash-Shirazi said, "He learned fiqh with Malik and ath-Thawri, and he was the first of Abu Hanifa's companions.
Then he left him and abandoned his madhhab."
Ibn Waddah