Remaining steadfast in the face of persecution

Remaining steadfast in the face of persecution

1990 8 August 15 Remaining steadfast in the face of persecution (57) During the Abbasid Caliphate the emergence of the Mutazilite creed stirred up controversy among Muslims, as a result of which Imam Ahmad ibn Hambal had severe punishments inflicted upon him. Yet he refused to alter the position he had adopted. Hafiz ibn Hajar tells that he was beaten so severely as to make “even an elephant flee.”