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Line 74: == Tabari's ordeal with Hanbalites == His [[ijtihad]] (independent judgement) led to criticism from the [[Zahiris]] and some fanatic [[Hanbali]] followers. Though his conflict with the leaders of the ~~Zāhiriyya~~Zahiri school was resolved, the Hanbalites literally besieged him in his own home. Apparently, al-Tabari did not think much of [[Ibn Hanbal]] as a jurist ([[faqih]]), but mainly saw him as a traditionist ([[muhaddith]]), and this was enough to incite the Hanbalites against him. Al-Tabari was suddenly accused of being a [[Jahmite]] [[heretic]], while his respect for [['Ali ibn Abi Talib]], the fourth rightly guided caliph, exposed him to accusations of [[Shi'ite]] sympathies. At the same time, he incurred the wrath of the Shi'ites by defending the previous three caliphs.<ref>{{cite book\|author=Camilla Adang\|author-link=Camilla Adang\|title=Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4Ut1MjLQTMC\|series=Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies\|volume=22\|date=1996\|publisher=[[E. J. Brill]]\|isbn=9789004100343\|page=42}}</ref> In [[Baghdad]], three Hanbalites, who do not seem further identifiable, asked al-Tabari about his views on a tradition attributed to [[Mujahid ibn Jabr\|Mujahid]], concerning the explanation of the verse 79 from [[Surat al-Isra']] in the [[Qur'an]] about the Praiseworthy Station of the [[Prophet Muhammad]], known as "al-Maqam al-Mahmud".<ref>{{cite book\|author=[[Gibril Fouad Haddad]]\|title=The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams & Hadith Masters\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwPnCAAAQBAJ\|date=2015\|publisher=[[As-Sunnah Foundation of America]]\|page=140}}</ref><ref name="The History of al-Tabari">{{cite book\|translator=[[Franz Rosenthal]]\|title=The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQvdc17cJkoC\|series=SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies\|volume=1\|date=1989\|location=[[Albany, New York\|Albany]]\|publisher=State University of New York Press ([[SUNY Press]])\|isbn=9781438417837\|pages=73–74}}</ref>

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