Book Spotlight: Sharḥ al-Hidāyah by Tāj al-Sharīʿah and Ibn Kamāl Bāṣhā

By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: شرح الهداية المسمّى نهاية الكفاية لدراية الهداية ومعه شرح الهداية لابن كمال باشا Vols: 13 Author: تاج الشريعة المحبوبي وابن كمال باشا Publisher: الإرشاد-إسطنبول Cover & Pages: Hard-7157pg This is a collection of two important commentaries on al-Hidayah in Hanafi Fiqh. The first is amongst the early commentaries of theContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: Sharḥ al-Hidāyah by Tāj al-Sharīʿah and Ibn Kamāl Bāṣhā”

Book Spotlight: Dhakhīrat al-ʿUqbā fī Sharḥ Ṣadr al-Sharīʿat al-ʿUẓmā ʿalā Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah

By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: ذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى:حاشية على شرح الوقاية لأخي جلبي Vols: 5 Author: يوسف بن جنيد التوقادي Publisher: الرياحين-بيروت Cover & Pages: Hard-2752pg Price: R1880, was R2480 Sharh al-Wiqayah is a famous Hanafi work, taught in many madaris. The most popular classical hashiyah on the work is DhakiratContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: Dhakhīrat al-ʿUqbā fī Sharḥ Ṣadr al-Sharīʿat al-ʿUẓmā ʿalā Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah”

Book Spotlight: Aḥkām al-Qurʾān by Imam al-Jaṣṣāṣ

By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: أحكام القرآن للجصاص-أسفار Vols: 9 Author: الجصاص الرازي Publisher: أسفار-الكويت Cover & Pages: Hard-6409pg While we might have studied Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh and Usul and could even be teaching Jalalayn, Hidayah, Nur al-Anwar and some of al-Kutub as-Sittah, we are generally deficient in being able to combine these fields andContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: Aḥkām al-Qurʾān by Imam al-Jaṣṣāṣ”

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”