Foundations of the Sunnah

أصول السنة

Imam Ahmad’s own notes on belief, as his students wrote them from him. The Quran is the speech of Allah, not created. Allah’s names and qualities are as they came. The Companions are not to be cursed. Faith is speech and deed. The decree is from Allah. It is short. It is firm. It is a foundation, not a club.

Foundations of the Sunnah
أصول السنة
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (died 241 AH) · died 241 AH
The imam’s creed as heard from him.

Read Ahmad as he wrote. Do not read him as a party quoted him.