Is he who describes a complex matter as "Hanbali" or one who is extreme in something as "Hanbali" considered an unbeliever?

The statement that the Hanbali school is the most difficult of the madhhabs does not render its speaker an unbeliever, nor is it considered mockery of Imam Ahmad or his madhhab. Rather, it is a common expression stemming from a misunderstanding of the madhhab, intended to describe it as stringent compared to others.

Indeed, the Hanbali school is characterized by ease in many aspects, such as the breadth of the madhhab and the multiplicity of narrations. It is distinguished by its ruling on the purity of the urine and droppings of animals whose meat is permissible to eat, wiping over socks (khuffayn), the principle that contracts and conditions are originally valid, the validity of a sale by mutual consent (mu'atah), that khul' (divorce initiated by the wife) is an annulment and not a divorce, and the permissibility for a person to endow something upon himself for the duration of his life. In all of this, there is facilitation and removal of hardship.