Thanks to the wonderful Aslein web forum, one can conveniently find a very large list of Hanafi fiqh books in manuscript form that can be found at the King Sa’ud University of Jeddah. The University has done the ummah a great service by having them scanned and made available online for free. May Allah rewardContinueContinue reading “Huge List of Hanafi Fiqh Manuscripts from the Saudi University of King Sa’ud University”
Category Archives: Fiqh
Useful Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Books in English
Question: I was wondering if you knew of any usul al-fiqh books in English that I could purchase or get from the library, so I can learn some of the basic usul words. Answer: There are quite a few books that have been published in the last two decades on the science of Islamic lawContinueContinue reading “Useful Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Books in English”
Book Review of Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi’s Recent Book “The Jurisprudence of Jihad”
Book Review by Ewan Stein, Guardian.co.uk Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the Egyptian-born octogenarian embraced by Ken Livingstone in 2004 and, as of 2008, excluded from the UK as a preacher of hate, has recently published a two-volume book entitled The Jurisprudence of Jihad. It is over 1400 pages long and has been received enthusiastically, and withContinueContinue reading “Book Review of Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi’s Recent Book “The Jurisprudence of Jihad””
Mukhtasar Khilafiyat al-Bayhaqi
Brother ashrafh, aka Hasan Ashraf, was kind enough to share with us an important book of comparitive fiqh that argues the Shafi’i stance on legal issues, highlighting the legal contentions that existed between the Shafi’i and the Hanafi (or as Imam Bayhaqi terms it, the “Iraqi”) schools. The book that brother Hasan provided is anContinueContinue reading “Mukhtasar Khilafiyat al-Bayhaqi”
Addendum to Shabe Barat by Shaykh Fadlur Rahman ‘Azmi
Assalamu ‘alaykum, Shaykh Ehzaz Ajmeri was kind enough to share with us an addendum to the book posted previously on the significance of the 15th of Sha’ban. You can download the addendum, which is in urdu, here.
Shabe Barat: The Fifteenth of Shabaan in the Light of the Qur’an and Hadeeth by Shaykh Fazlur Rahman ‘Azmi
Given that the fifteenth of Sha’ban is upon us, the usual questions about the signigicance of the night of the 15th and fasting on its day have begun to come up. I thought it would be useful to read a researched answer by one of today’s foremost authorities in the science of Hadith, Shaykh al-HadithContinueContinue reading “Shabe Barat: The Fifteenth of Shabaan in the Light of the Qur’an and Hadeeth by Shaykh Fazlur Rahman ‘Azmi”
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