Ahmad b. Hanbal is a major and prominent scholars from Ahlus Sunnah. He is arguably one of their most important narrators with a major contribution to the hadith corpus completed with his Musnad. In this article, we will demonstrate clear censorship and tampering of Hadiths committed by Ahmad b. Hanbal because of his bias beliefs, placing a clear doubt on his credibility and reliability for as a Hadith author. Below we have mentioned 9 cases of clear tampering by Ahmad.

Oftentimes when the narrations of Imam Ali’s merits are quoted, other schools in Islam will often cite the words of scholars who would weaken the narrations in terms of their matn (content) or sanad (chain of transmission). One of the most infamous examples of this is al-Dhahabi, who weakened many of the merits of Ali transmitted by al-Hakim al-Neyshaburi in his Mustadrak. How reliable are the gradings of al-Dhahabi?

One of the most common questions regarding ʿĀʾishah bt. Abī Bakr concerns her relationship with Imām ʿAlī (as). It is well known that she opposed him at the Battle of Jamal. However, after his victory, Imām ʿAlī (as) treated her with dignity, arranging for her safe return to Medina under armed escort. Just a few years later, she received news of his assassination at the hands of the Kharijite, Ibn Muljim (la). Her reaction to this news invites important reflection: did she