A proponent of the classical Sunni position of the 'differences between the scholars being a mercy,' Ibn Qudamah is famous for having said: 'The consensus of the Imams of jurisprudence is an overwhelming proof and their disagreement is a vast mercy.' Within that school, he is one of the few thinkers to be given the honorific epithet of Shaykh of Islam, which is a prestigious title bestowed by Sunnis on some of the most important thinkers of their tradition. Having authored many important treatises on jurisprudence and religious doctrine, including one of the standard works of Hanbalilaw, the revered al-Mug̲h̲nī, Ibn Qudamah is highly regarded in Sunnism for being one of the most notable and influential thinkers of the Hanbalischool of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence. Muḥammad (Arabic ابن قدامة, Ibn Qudāmah 1147 - 7 July 1223), often referred to as Ibn Qudamah or Ibn Qudama for short, was a Sunni Muslimascetic, jurisconsult, traditionalist theologian, and religious mystic. Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdīsī Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b.
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