Commentary on Imam Ahmad's statement regarding the people's need for knowledge during the time of fitnah

Question:
The questioner asks: What is your commentary on Imam Ahmad's statement during the time of fitnah, the fitnah of the creation of the Qur'an, that people today are in greater need of knowledge and hadith than ever before?

Answer:
Yes, it is clear, because the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) of Imam Ahmad, and the fitnah of the time in which he lived, and the fitnah of the claim that the Qur'an is created, which was carried out by the Mu'tazilah, was a great fitnah, a great fitnah. No one escaped it except the people of hadith and the people of knowledge, who knew and understood that the Qur'an is the speech of Allah, not a created thing, but rather the speech of Allah. So they refused to say that the Qur'an is created, and they were patient in the face of harm. Some of them were killed, some were imprisoned, and some were tortured, like Imam Ahmad. They were patient until Allah established the truth in their hands. And this was only by the grace of Allah, and then by the grace of the knowledge of hadith, or hadith knowledge. Yes.