Category Archives: Fiqh

al-Imam al-Nawawi loved knowledge since his youth. He memorized the Qur’an early on and then travelled to Damascus so that he could benefit from the major Shafi’i jurists and traditionists. He moved between their gatherings of religious learning, gaining proficiency in hadith and its sciences, mastering jurisprudence and its application, while also gaining much inContinueContinue reading “Imam Nawawi and the Hierarchy of his Works”

We just added a new link to a large collection of Arabic works on the Hanbali madhhab. I believe it is operated by the same people who run the similar Maliki site. Both links can be found on the bottom right of the home page. The link reads Khazanat al-Madhhab al-Hanbali.

By Abu Layth He was the Qadi (judge), Imam, scholar of high repute, the ascetic (zahid), a tenacious Faqih (jurist), a righteous and humble ruler (wazir). All such characteristics have been attributed to him by his contemporaries and biographers throughout the ages, such as in the Tabaqat Ash-Shafi’yyah of Qadi ibn Shuhbah, the Tabaqat of As-Subki, and within the manyContinueContinue reading “Al-Qadi Abu Shuja’ Al-Asbahani and His Matn Ghayat at-Taqrib”

Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi (731 AH) was a renowned eight century scholar, historian, poet, and jurist. He was from Granada in Muslim Spain and is well-known for having dictated the travel journal (Rihlah) of Ibn Batutah. He also compiled a number of legal works, such as the Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah fi Talkhis Madhhab al-Malikiyyah which discusses,ContinueContinue reading “Al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah fi Talkhis Madhhab al-Malikiyyah by Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi”