Category Archives: Fiqh

Book Spotlight: al-Awsaṭ min al-Sunan wa-l-Ijmāʿ wa-l-Ikhtilāf by Ibn al-Mundhir

By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الأوسط من السنن والإجماع والاختلاف-ابن حزم Vols: 15 Author: ابن المنذر النيسابوري Publisher: ابن حزم-بيروت Cover & Pages: Hard-8209pg This is the masterpiece of the Mujtahid Imam, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Mundhir d.318ah, an expert muhaddith and faqih. This work is famous for the following: 1- It is one of theContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: al-Awsaṭ min al-Sunan wa-l-Ijmāʿ wa-l-Ikhtilāf by Ibn al-Mundhir”

Book Spotlight: al-Fatāwā al-Ḥadīthiyyah of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (or al-Haythamī)

By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الفتاوى الحديثية-التقوى دمشق Author: ابن حجر الهيتمي Publisher: التقوى-دمشق Cover & Pages: Hard-2044pg The Fatawa Hadithiyyah of Allamah Ibn Hajar al-Haytami is another unappreciated book. Non-Shafi’is as well as Shafi’is not inclined to fiqh don’t touch it thinking it is a Shafi Fiqh work, while many of those who knowContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: al-Fatāwā al-Ḥadīthiyyah of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (or al-Haythamī)”

Mukhtaṣar al-Manāhij al-Fiqhiyyah al-Muʿāṣarah by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ilāh al-ʿArfaj

مختصر المناهج الفقهية المعاصرة عبد الإله العرفج Introduced by Mufti Husain Kadodia This book highlights three contemporary juristic methodologies with indepth analysis: The traditional school (madhhabi) approach, whose adherents restrict themselves to the juristic interpretations of one of the four renowned schools of Islamic law: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali. The Salafi approach, whose adherentsContinueContinue reading “Mukhtaṣar al-Manāhij al-Fiqhiyyah al-Muʿāṣarah by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ilāh al-ʿArfaj”

A Reading List: Great Books of Islamic Civilization

The intellectual tradition of Islamic civilization is both incredibly vast and delightfully diverse. Within this immense corpus of intellectual wealth, certain works enjoy an authority that endures time because these “great books” shaped entire disciplines, helped form curricula, or preserved modes of thought across centuries. The following list, produced by N.A. Baloch, comprises the tableContinueContinue reading “A Reading List: Great Books of Islamic Civilization”

Comparing Al-Jawharat al-Nayyirah & Al-Sirāj al-Wahhāj

Review by Shaykh Abu Asim Badrul Islam A very brief comparison of the two famous commentaries by ῾Allāmah Abu Bakr al-Ḥaddādi al-Yamāni (d. 800 AH) on the Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūri – Al-Jawharat al-Nayyirahand Al-Sirāj al-Wahhāj : المقارنة بين شرحي العلّامة أبي بكر الحدّادي اليماني (ت 800) لمختصر القدوري السراج الوهّاج الموضح لكل طالب ومحتاج المؤلف : العلّامة أبو بكر بن علي بنContinueContinue reading “Comparing Al-Jawharat al-Nayyirah & Al-Sirāj al-Wahhāj”