the

According to the Ḥanafī School

The author of Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, the The Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī is one of the most

mukhtaṣ ar
Ḥanafī Jurist, Shaykh Abū’l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad celebrated and influential treatises in any

A Manual of Islamic Law

mukhtaṣ ar

al-qudūrī
ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ja‘far ibn Muslim school of methodology and thought
Hamdān al-Qudūrī, was born in Baghdād in and is the foundation for the Ḥanafī school.
362 AH/973 CE and died on Sunday, 5th Rajab, It is both the first source for scholars and a
428 AH/1037 CE aged 66. He is considered manual for the general reader.

the
an utterly truthful (ṣadūq) hadith narrator of ImāmAbū’l-Ḥusayn AḤmad Ibn MuḤammad

al-qudūrī
by Ibn Khallikān, al-Ḥāfiz Ibn Kathīr, Ibn Ibn AḤmad Ibn Ja‘far Ibn Ḥamdān Its judgements, based on divine revelation,
al-Jawzī and others, and was one of the aṣḥāb trace back directly through men of the
at-tarjīḥ in the Ḥanafī madhhab, which is one highest calibre, such as al-Jaṣṣāṣ and Abū
of the highest grades in knowledge of fiqh. Ḥanīfah, may Allah have mercy on them,
to ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd æand other great
Ṭāhir Maḥmood Kiānī is a graduate of Jāmi‘a Companions and thence to Muḥammad œ,
al-baghdādī
al-Karam and the International Islamic the Final Messenger of Allah.
(362 AH – 428 AH)
University, Islamabad. He has written articles
and lectured on various topics in Islam, as This is its first ever complete translation
well as translating from Urdu and classical in English.

A Manual of Islamic Law

MaḤmood
Arabic into English. He is currently Lecturer

Translated by
According to the Ḥanafī School

Ṭāhir
in Advanced Islamic Sciences at the al-Karam

Kiānī
Institute for Islamic Sciences, Jāmi‘a al-
Karam, Retford, UK.

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