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Wasomi wa kisasa wamefafanua Inquisition (Mahakama ya Kuhoji Imani) kuwa ni jaribio la al-Maʾmūn la kuifanya khilafa kuwa chanzo cha uongozi wote katika mambo ya imani na sheria. Jaribio hili kwa ujumla linaweza kuelezwa kuwa la Kishia. Al-Maʾmūn alichukua misimamo mingine kadhaa inayounga mkono Washia, ikiwa ni pamoja na kumteua mzawa wa ʿAlī kuwa mrithi wake wa wazi. Hata hivyo, hakuweka uongozi wa mfano kwa familia ya ʿAlī pekee. Alijumuisha familia yake mwenyewe, Abbasids, miongoni mwa maimamu au viongozi wanaowezekana, na bila shaka alijiona mwenyewe kuwa imamu wa wakati wake. Inaonekana alikuza mawazo haya wakati wa vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe kati yake na mtangulizi wake, khalifa al-Amīn. Kwa makusudi au bila kukusudia, msimamo wa al-Maʾmūn wa kiShia ulimpelekea kugongana na watu kama Ibn Ḥanbal, ambaye aliamini kwamba Sheria inapatikana katika sunnah ya Mtume ﷺ, si katika kauli za watu binafsi. Ili kuwalazimisha wanaume wa Hadith na wanasheria wenye mawazo kama yao wakubali mamlaka yake, al-Maʾmūn kwa hila aliamua kuwauliza kuhusu kuumbwa kwa Qur'ani.

335 Modern scholarship has explained the Inquisition as al-Maʾmūn’s attempt to make the caliphate the source of all guidance in matters of belief and law. This attempt can broadly be characterized as a Shiʿi one. Al-Maʾmūn adopted several other pro-Shiʿa positions, including the nomination of a descendant of ʿAlī as his heir apparent. He did not, however, limit exemplary leadership to ʿAlī’s family. He included his own family, the Abbasids, among the potential imams or guides, and of course believed himself to be the imam in his own time. He seems to have developed these ideas in the course of the civil war between himself and his predecessor, the caliph al- Amīn. Intentionally or not, al-Maʾmūn’s Shiʿi self-positioning brought him into conflict with people like Ibn Ḥanbal, who believed that the Law was to be found in the sunnah rather than in the declarations of individuals. To force the Hadith-men and like-minded jurists to acknowledge his authority, al-Maʾmūn craftily decided to ask them about the createdness of the Qurʾan.

Hadithi ya Ḥanbal inaweka kauli hii katika mwanga tofauti. Katika simulizi lake, Ibn Abī Duʾād anamwambia Ibn Ḥanbal: “Nimesikia unapenda kuwa kiongozi” (balaghanī annaka tuḥibbu r-riʾāsah; Dhikr, 51), kisha khalifa anatoa pendekezo lake la kumtembeza Ibn Ḥanbal kama shujaa. Swali hili la mfuasi maarufu wa Ibn Ḥanbal ni la kuvutia. Steppat (“From Ahd Ardašīr”) anaeleza kwamba kazi moja ya Kiajemi kuhusu usimamizi wa dola, ambayo al-Maʾmūn aliifahamu, inawashauri watawala kukandamiza kila dalili ya uongozi wa kidini miongoni mwa watu, na huenda ilimtia moyo Mateso (Inquisition). Ḥanbal anadai kwamba wakati wa kupigwa kwa Ibn Ḥanbal “watu walikuwa wamekusanyika katika uwanja, njia nyembamba, na mahali pengine; masoko yalikuwa yamefungwa na makundi ya watu yalikuwa yamekusanyika” (Dhikr, 60). Simulizi za baadaye za Ḥanbalī zinasisitiza sana umati huu, ingawa simulizi hizo si za kushawishi sana (Winkelmann-Liebert, “Die miḥna,” 246). Kwa upande mwingine, vyanzo vinavyompinga Ibn Ḥanbal na wafuasi wake vinazungumza kwa hofu kuhusu uwezo wao unaodaiwa wa kuwaamuru watu wa kawaida (Qāḍī, “Earliest Nābita” na Cooperson, “Al-Jāḥiẓ”).

371 Ḥanbal’s account sets this remark in a different light. In his telling, Ibn Abī Duʾād says to Ibn Ḥanbal: “I hear you like to be a leader” (balaghanī annaka tuḥibbu r-riʾāsah; Dhikr, 51), and then the caliph makes his offer to parade Ibn Ḥanbal around as a hero. This question of Ibn Ḥanbal’s popular following is a tantalizing one. Steppat (“From Ahd Ardašīr”) notes that a Persian work on statecraft known to al-Maʾmūn urges rulers to crush any manifestations of religious leadership among the people, and may have inspired the Inquisition. Ḥanbal claims that during the Ibn Ḥanbal’s flogging “people had gathered in the square, the lanes, and elsewhere; the markets had closed and crowds had gathered” (Dhikr, 60). Later Ḥanbalī accounts make much of the crowd, though these accounts are not very persuasive (Winkelmann-Liebert, “Die miḥna,” 246). On the other hand, sources hostile to Ibn Ḥanbal and his followers speak fearfully of their supposed power to command the rabble (Qāḍī, “Earliest Nābita” and Cooperson, “Al- Jāḥiẓ”).