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The Hanbali school (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي) is one of the four primary traditional Sunni schools (madhab) of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Iraqi scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal and was institutionalised by his students. The Hanbali madhab is the smallest of four primary Sunni schools, and the rest are Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi`i.
The Hanbali school derives sharia predominantly from the Al-Quran, the Hadiths and the views of Sahabah (Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.’s companions). In cases where there is no clear answer in sacred texts of Islam, the Hanbali school does not accept jurist discretion or customs of a community as a sound basis to derive Islamic law, a method that Hanafi and Maliki Sunni fiqh accept. Hanbali school is the strict traditionalist school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. It is found primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where it is the official fiqh. Hanbali followers are the demographic majority in the four emirates of UAE (Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Ajman). Significant minorities of Hanbali followers are also found in Bahrain, Syria, Oman and Yemen and among Iraqi and Jordanian bedouins.