Author: Abu-l Qasim al-Khiraqi ‘Umar b. al-Husain al-Baghdadi al-Dimashqi (d. 334 AH) His name “al-Khiraqi”: They would sell clothes and rags (Khiraq), thus, the name. No one else from the scholars of the Hanabaliah have this ascription besides him and his father (d. 299 AH) who was famously known as “The Successor of al-Marrudhi” as […]
More commonly known as “al-‘Iqna”. Author: Sharaf al-Din Abu-n Naja Musa b. Ahmad al-Hajjawi al-Maqdisi al-Dimashqi al-Salihi (d. 968 AH) al-Buhuti said in the introduction of his commentary on the book: “No one came after him who was like him nor was there anyone after him was able to walk in his footsteps.” Ibn al-‘Imad […]
One of the most suitable book for beginners in our Madhhab: This is the shortest Fiqh manual in the Hanbali Madhhab that we know of to date. This is (Furu’ al-Fiqh) by Ibn ‘Abdi-l Hadi [d. 909 AH], also known as Ibnu-l Mibrad (r). The book is around 60 pages and laid out very well. […]
(More commonly known as “al-Muntaha”) Author: Taqiy al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad b. ‘Abdil ‘Aziz al-Futuhi al-Misri (famously known as Ibn al-Najjar) (d. 972 AH) “Al-Futuhi” is taken from “Bab al-Futuh (Conquest Gate)” located in Old Cairo. Al-Futuhi authored the al-Muntaha after he had traveled to Syria. He returned to Egypt after he had thoroughly revised […]
Author: al-‘Allamah Mansur al-Buhuti (r) Description of the book and the authors style of explanation: This book has been written on the Fiqh of the Madhhab of al-Imam Ahmad (r) and it is a commentary on the primer in Fiqh called Zadu-l Mustaqni’ by al-‘Allamah al-Hajjawi (r). Al-Hajjawi (r) abridged it from al-Muwaffaq Ibn Qudama’s […]