Channel

Hanbali Disciples

@hanbalidisciples

On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry

726subscribers

+9 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1002286669564
Type	Channel
Username	@hanbalidisciples
Created	Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded	8 August 2026
Last confirmed live	30 August 2026
Measurements held	5
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 30 August 2026
On Telegram	t.me/hanbalidisciples

Growth

5 measurements spanning 22 days, net +9. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 716–727 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
30 Aug 2026, 03:36	726	+1
23 Aug 2026, 00:24	725	+5
14 Aug 2026, 14:46	720	+3
8 Aug 2026, 02:16	717	no change
7 Aug 2026, 21:18	717	first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 4 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days: 31.7%; avg views ÷ 726 subscribers
Avg views / post: 230; 4 posts measured
Reaction rate: 5.86%; reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window: 4; of 20 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
Window	Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026
Posts held	20 (4 June 2026 – 7 August 2026)
Views total	921
Reactions total	54
Forwards / comments	not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken	8 Aug 2026, 02:16 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

Reaction mix

313 reactions across 20 posts, in 11 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 81.5% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction	Count	Share
❤	255	81.5%
🏆	14	4.47%
🔥	10	3.19%
🙏	10	3.19%
❤‍🔥	8	2.56%
👍	5	1.60%
👏	4	1.28%
🥰	3	0.958%
✍	2	0.639%
💯	1	0.319%
🤓	1	0.319%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 313reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 4 June 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

7 Aug 2026, 12:46 UTC102 views14 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Friday: The Day of Prayer, Praise, and Remembrance Imām ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī رحمه الله said: "It is recommended to send prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ one thousand times on Friday. Likewise, it is recommended to recite tasbīḥ one thousand times, using the four phrases: Subḥān Allāh Alḥamdulillāh Lā ilāha illā Allāh Allāhu Akbar." al-Ghunyah (2:109) Whether you complete all one thousand or only a portion of it, le…

❤13🙏1

Signed John Starling

6 Aug 2026, 10:22 UTC178 views14 reactionsread 8 August 2026

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Alḥamdulillāh, the English translation of Riḥlat al-Shaykh: The Journey of Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī is now available for purchase. This work documents Imam al-Wāsiṭī's movement through the intellectual and spiritual worlds of Wāsiṭ, Baghdad, Alexandria, Egypt, and Damascus. Along the way, he encounters jurists, ascetics, Sufis, theologians, and competing visions of the path to Allah. He records what he learned …

❤11🏆2👍1

Signed John Starling

2 Aug 2026, 12:07 UTC328 views16 reactionsread 8 August 2026

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Alḥamdulillāh, Mīzān al-Ḥaqq wa al-Ḍalāl (The Measure of Truth and Misguidance) by Imam ʿImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī is now available in English. This timeless treatise explores how true knowledge of Allah, through His Names and Attributes, transforms the heart and calls the servant to sincere ʿubūdiyyah. From the demands of the Divine Names and the fruits of true gnosis to the stations of fanāʾ and baqāʾ and the discernm…

❤12🏆3🔥1

Signed John Starling

31 Jul 2026, 23:54 UTC313 views10 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Every soul has a war to wage. Some march into the clash of armies where drums thunder and steel collides. Others move in silence, carrying on a battle unseen by all but Allah. One is fought upon the battlefield. The other is fought within the heart. Yet every believer is called to strive according to his station, and neither struggle truly ends until the servant departs this world and meets his Lord. Shaykh ʿAbd al…

❤8🙏2

Signed John Starling

27 Jul 2026, 23:14 UTC333 views6 reactionsread 8 August 2026

When Allah Draws You Near The path of the murīd is one of striving. It is marked by constant struggle against the nafs, patient endurance, and an unrelenting desire to draw nearer to Allah. But when Allah wills good for His servant and draws him near, he becomes a murād, one sought by Allah Himself. The burdens of the traveler begin to fall away, and what was once attained only through struggle now becomes sustained…

🙏6

Signed John Starling

26 Jul 2026, 23:22 UTC329 views8 reactionsread 8 August 2026

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Registration is still open! Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid wa Kifāyat al-Zāhid Join us for a structured introduction to Hanbali fiqh through one of the school's classic beginner texts. Students will study the rulings of worship while reading the text, reviewing recorded lessons, participating in discussions, and completing a midterm and final examination. Students who successfully complete the course (80% or higher) will receive…

❤8

26 Jul 2026, 20:07 UTC297 views8 reactionsread 8 August 2026

When Love Becomes King Having explained that love of Allah blinds the heart to everything besides the Beloved, al-Bāz al-Ashhab continues by describing what that love does once it takes hold. It does not remain merely another affection within the heart. Rather, it enters like a king, overturning its former order until the desires once honored by the nafs are humbled and every faculty is redirected toward Allah. He w…

❤6🏆1👍1

Signed John Starling

25 Jul 2026, 01:30 UTC306 views10 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Aspiration of The Murīd In his discussion of al-irādah (spiritual aspiration), Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī describes the qualities of the true murīd, the disciple whose heart seeks Allah above all else. His aspiration is not fixed upon created means, but upon Allah Himself. Constantly turning toward his Lord in obedience, he comes to see every created cause for what it truly is: an instrument, moved, governed, an…

❤10

Signed John Starling

23 Jul 2026, 17:20 UTC338 views7 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Going Live! We’ll be live shortly with another episode of Nothing But Facts. Today we’re continuing our journey through the sīrah as we explore the Prophet’s ﷺ greatest and most enduring miracle: the Qur’an. Along the way, we’ll visit a remarkable Hanbali scholar from northern Syria, reflect on the heart that first received revelation, and end with some practical thoughts on how we can approach the Book of Allah wi…

❤4🏆3

Signed John Starling

16 Jul 2026, 15:21 UTC459 views15 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Live Today at 1:00 PM EST I’ll be back on air with Nothing But Facts on the Safina Society channel. Today’s episode explores a fascinating and perhaps unexpected corner of the Hanbali tradition. We’ll trace how a few simple words of the Prophet ﷺ inspired centuries of reflection on fragrance, cleanliness, refinement, medicine, and the art of living beautifully. Along the way, we’ll meet one of the great Hanbali sch…

❤12❤‍🔥1🏆1🥰1

Signed John Starling

13 Jul 2026, 23:31 UTC484 views8 reactionsread 8 August 2026

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The Guarded Secret. Now Available in Print. The Guarded Secret and Treasured Knowledge (al-Sirr al-Maṣūn wa al-ʿIlm al-Makhzūn) by the great Ḥanbalī scholar and spiritual master, Imām al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711H), is now available in English. Written more than seven centuries ago, this concise work explores one of the most important subjects in Islamic scholarship: how the servant comes to truly love Allah. Beginning with …

❤7🔥1

Signed John Starling

9 Jul 2026, 15:20 UTC570 views13 reactionsread 8 August 2026

New Lecture & Research Article After several weeks of research and discussion, I have completed a new study examining one of the most important questions in Islamic theology: When does an act actually become worship, and when does it become shirk? Rather than beginning with disputed practices, this study returns to first principles by examining the Hanbali tradition, the Qur'anic presentation of pagan worship, and…

❤12🔥1

Signed John Starling

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @hanbalidisciples. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 30 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Hanbali Disciples” (@hanbalidisciples), 726 subscribers as measured 30 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/hanbalidisciples.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.