Mutūn

The five most recognized mutun of the Ḥanafī madhhab and those that are considered compilations of the reliable (muʿtamad) opinions of the school are:

  1. Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī 
  2. Bidāyat al-Mubtadī
  3. Wiqāyat al-Riwāyah
  4. Al-Mukhtār
  5. Kanz al-Daqāʾiq

Some have included other mutūn, such as the Tuḥfat al-Mulūk and the Tuḥfat al-Fuqahāʾ. A more complete list of short texts includes the following:

Mukhtaṣar al-Ṭaḥāwī by Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (d. 321)

Al-Kāfī by Al-Ḥākim al-Shahīd Abū ʾl-Faḍl al-Marwazī (d. 334)

Al-Muntakhab by Al-Ḥākim al-Shahīd Abū ʾl-Faḍl al-Marwazī (d. 334)

Mukhtaṣar al-Karkhī by Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allāh al-Karkhī (d. 340)

Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī by Abū ʾl-Ḥusayn Aḥmad al-Qudūrī (d. 428)

Tuḥfat al-Fuqahāʾ by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī (d. 539)

Al-Fiqh al-Nāfiʿ by Abū ʾl-Qāsim al-Samarqandī (d. 556)

Bidāyat al-Mubdatī by Burhān al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593)

Tuḥfat al-Mulūk by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī (d. 666)

Wiqāyat al-Riwāyah fī Masāʾil al-Hidāyah by Tāj al-Sharīʿah Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥbūbī (d. 673)

Al-Mukhtār li ʾl-Fatwā  (with Al-Ikhtiyār) by Abū ʾl-Faḍl ʿAbd Allāh al-Mawṣilī (d. 683)

Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn by Muẓaffar al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn al-Sāʿātī (d. 694)

Al-Wāfī by Abū ʾl-Barakāt Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Nasafī (d. 710)

Kanz al-Daqāʾiq by by Abū ʾl-Barakāt Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Nasafī (d. 710)

Al-Nuqāyah Mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʿah al-Aṣghar (d. 747)

ʿUyūn al-Madhāhib by Qiwām al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Kākī (d. 749)

Ghurar al-Aḥkām by Mawlā Khuṣrū (d. 885)

Khulāṣat al-Kaydānī by Luṭf Allāh al-Nasafī al-Kaydānī (d. after 900)

Mawāhib al-Raḥmān fī Madhhab Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān by al-Ṭarābulusī (d. 922)

Makhzan al-Fiqh by al-Amāsī (d. 938)

Multaqā ʾl-Abḥur  by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī (d. 956)

Tanwīr al-Abṣār wa Jāmiʿ al-Biḥār by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Tumurtāshī (d. 1004)

Nūr al-Īdāḥ by Abū ʾl-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan al-Shurunbulālī (d. 1069)

Marāqī al-Saʿādāt by Abū ‘l-Ikhlas Ḥasan al-Shurunbulālī (d. 1069)

Itḥāf al-Ṭālib by Abū Bakr al-Mullā al-Aḥṣāʾī (d. 1270)

Tuḥfat al-Mubtadī by Abū Bakr al-Mullā al-Aḥṣāʾī (d. 1270)

Al-Hadiyyat al-ʿAlāʾiyyah by Muḥammad ʿAlā al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Amīn Ibn ‘Abidin al-Dimashqi (d. 1306)

To be sorted:

 

Al-Khulāṣat al-Bahiyyah by Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Banjāwī

 

 

Versified mutūn can be found on the manẓūmāt page.

2 thoughts on “Mutūn

  1. I want to buy the most reliable Matn of Mukhtasar al-Quduri that is there. Is it the ones that the S. African Madaris teach?

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