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Title

Imam Abu Hanifa's al-Fiqh al-akbar explained / by Abu al-Muntaha al-Maghnisawi ; with selections from 'Ali al-Qari Commentary, including Abu Hanifa's Kitab al-Wasiyya ; compiled and translated with introduction by Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf.

Author

Maghnīsāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1591 or 1592.

Publication

Santa Barbara, California, USA : White Thread Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, -1605 or 1606.
• Ibn Yusuf, Abdur-Rahman, 1974-
• Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768.

Description

239 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Hanafites > Early works to 1800
• Islam > Doctrines > Early works to 1800
• Islamic law > Early works to 1800
• Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768 > Fiqh al-akbar

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translators introduction -- Islamic beliefs -- Al-fiqh al-akbar -- Biographies -- Abu l-Muntaha al-Maghnisawi -- Mulla 'Ali al-Qari -- Other commentaries on al-Fiqh al-akbar -- Prelude -- The scholars approach to ʻilm al-kalām summarized from ʻAlī al-Qārī's introduction -- Maghnīsāwī's introduction to his commentary of al-Fiqh al-akbar -- The fundamentals of divine oneness (tawḥīd) and true faith (īmān) -- Allāh and his essential and active attributes -- The Qurān: the speech of Allāh Most High 89 -- That Allāh is unlike anything, and his hand, countenance, and self -- The attributes of creating, knowledge, preordination, and his writing in the preserved tablet -- That Allāh created people pure and the covenant of the beginning -- The creator and the actions of his creation -- The prophets (upon them be peace), Muḥammad, and the companions -- The effects of sin on a person, wiping leather socks (khuffayn), tarāwīḥ, and other matters -- Muʻjizāt, karāmāt, and istidrāj 161 -- The beatific vision of Allāh -- Īmān (true faith), Islām, and dīn (true religion)? -- Knowing Allāh Most High -- Allāh the generous and just -- The intercession and some other eschatological realities -- That Allah guides and misguides -- Some eschatological realitiesconcerning the grave -- Expressing the attributes of Allāh in other than Arabic -- The closeness and distance of a person to Allāh Most High -- More concerning the Qurān -- Abū Ṭālib, the parents of Allāh's messenger, and his children -- What to do when doubt arises regarding any matter from the subtleties of the science of divine oneness (tawḥīd) -- Concerning the ascension and some signs of the Day of Judgment -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 9781933764030
• 1933764031

LCCN

^^2007021094

OCLC

• 137222786
• SCSB-10374101

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library