Abu Bakr al-Khallal

Al-Khallal's exact date of birth is not known. He died in 923, which means that he would have been born during Ahmad ibn Hanbal's twilight years. The Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Legal History estimates al-Khallal's year of birth as 848. According to Muslim historian al-Dhahabi, there was no such thing as an independent Hanbalite school of law prior to al-Khallal's efforts at compiling Ibn Hanbal's views. ==Reception==

The historian al-Dhahabi stated that, "Before him (al-Khallal) there were no independent school of the Imam's; not until he followed up Ahmad's texts, wrote them down and checked their proofs after 300." The 20th century Hanbali jurisprudent Ibn Badran called al-Khallal's collection "the very root of the Hanbali school, from which sprang all later books of Hanbali jurisprudence." ==Citations==