Aḥmad b. Abdu’l-Raḥmān al-Banna [d. 1378/1958]

الشيخ أحمد بن عبد الرحمن البنا Born 1301/1885, the father of the late Imām Ḥasan al-Banna, he was an Azhar graduate, imam and Hanbali scholar who wrote a massive 24-volume commentary on Musnad Ahmad entitled al-Fatḥ al-Rabbānī along with a condensed version of that entitled Bulūgh al-Amānī, an arrangement of the Musnad of Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālīsī (d 204/818) entitled Minḥat al-Ma‘būd, and an edition of the Musnad of Imām al-Shāfi‘ī entitled Badā’i‘ al-Minan, among many other works.

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• Written by Dr Abu Zayd at January 18, 2011
• 14th Century, Egypt, Hadith Scholars, Ḥanbalī Scholars, Khalaf (Later Generations), Scholars of Fiqh (Islamic Law), Scholars of Ḥanbalī Legal School