An institute for the Ḥanbalī tradition.
Al-Madrasah Al-Ḥanbaliyyah teaches, translates and preserves the classical works of the madhhab of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, taught live by qualified scholars to students in more than thirty countries. Since 2012.
The aim of the Madrasah is to propagate traditional Islam grounded in the authentic Ḥanbalī Madhhab, and to make that learning accessible to an international audience.
Al-Madrasah Al-Ḥanbaliyyah is an institute for traditional Islamic learning with a focus on the Ḥanbalī school. We achieve our aim mainly through online courses in the various Islamic sciences, Fiqh, Ḥadīth, ʿAqīdah, Taṣawwuf, Adab and many others, taught in a form that reaches students wherever they are.
Every course is taught by qualified and authorised teachers, with authentic asānīd and ijāzāt given to participants on completion. Through the efforts of the Madrasah, students from around the globe have benefited from the courses offered, and many have returned to the true understanding of the Madhhab.
Alongside its teaching, the Madrasah publishes original scholarly works, holds regular question and answer live streams, and produces video series, so the tradition is transmitted in the classroom, set down in print, and shared openly.
· · ·The name is taken from a door: the entrance of the school, whose plate we carry as our seal. It is a plain statement of what the institution is for. What passes through that door is a curriculum, not a collection of talks, taught end to end, checked against its sources, and licensed when it is complete.
What the Madrasah does
Four things, all in service of one aim: that the school is learned the way it was taught.
Live online courses
One text, taught from beginning to end by a qualified teacher. Every sitting covers the Arabic, a literal rendering, and the school's explanation. Recordings stay with the student.
Original publications
The Madrasah publishes its own scholarly works, Arabic established against the manuscripts with facing translation, written for beginners through to those seeking depth.
Q&A and video series
Regular question and answer live streams and recorded video series, so that questions receive answers grounded in the tradition rather than left to guesswork.
Ijāzah & asānīd
Knowledge is transmitted, not merely delivered. Teachers hold connected chains, and students who complete a text receive an ijāzah and a written sanad.
Fourteen years, counted honestly
Every number below is something already done rather than something planned.
One school, taught in full
The Madrasah teaches the Ḥanbalī Madhhab, not a survey of opinions. A student is grounded in one school before the positions of others are placed before him, because that is how the classical protocols of teaching were understood: mastery first, comparison afterward.
Its scope reaches from the foundational primers a beginner starts with to the primary reference works from which qualified scholars derive the relied-upon positions of the school. The same rigour is brought to ʿAqīdah, to the inward sciences, and to conduct, so that formation is whole rather than partial.
See the fields of study →
Where to go next
Fields of study
The twelve sciences taught at the Madrasah, and the texts studied within each one.
Explore the fields →The teachers
Who you actually read with, and the chains through which they hold their knowledge.
Meet the team →Common questions
How courses work, what an ijāzah is, and how to find your starting point.
Read the FAQ →Come and sit with us.
You have read what the school is. The next step is a term, and the first sitting of any term is the one that tells you whether this way of studying suits you.
