Two Abbasid trials: Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal and Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2001.v22.i2.218Abstract
According to Ḥanbalī sources, the imam (d. 855) did not capitulate to the 'Abbāsid Inquisition. In modem times, a persuasive argument has been made that he must have done so; otherwise, he would never have been released. Yet a comparison of Ibn Ḥanbal's trial with that of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 873) suggests that the `Abbāsid caliphs, when asked to judge suspected heretics, made their decisions based on reasons of state rather than dogmatic grounds. Against this background, the trial report of Ḥanbal b. Isḥāq can be read as a plausible account of why the caliph al-Mu'taṣim might have released Ibn Ḥanbal despite the latter's defiance of the Inquisition.
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