These are my complete notes on Akhsar al-Mukhtasarat’s chapter on Islamic laws of inheritance based on lectures of my teacher Sh. Muhammad Gamal Aly. I also used Sh. Al-Quaymi’s explanation of the chapter online as an additional resource to compile the notes. I must admit that out of all the chapters of fiqh, I was …
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Introduction The concept of disciplining one’s wife in Islamic law is very controversial and has led to much discussion in recent times. Unfortunately, most of what is found on the subject by modern writers, especially as it pertains to Qur’an 4:34, falls into one of the following four categories: Rejection of the concept – These …
A week or two ago, I was asked by someone reaching out to me through this blog about the Hanbali position on istighatha (استغاثة), directly requesting aid from the dead, and tawassul (التوسل), to make a request to Allah through some sort of means. This is a controversial issue in the Muslim world and often …
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By Muhammad al-Khalafi Imam Ahmad never authored a complete work on Fiqh, and this was because of his extreme wara’. Some of his students wrote his Fiqh opinions and compiled it in the small books of “Masa’il”. The most famous of those who did this are: his two sons Abdullah & Sālih, his nephew Hanbal …
I just completed the Book of Transactions from the Hanbali text Akhsar al-Mukhtasarat with Sh. Muhammad Gamal Aly. It took us over a year but it was definitely worth it. In my past studies, I always found business law difficult to grasp so I am glad that I got over a year to think about it. …
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Ramadan Mubarak! I studied privately the Book of Prayer, Book of Fasting, and the Book of Zakkah from the Hanbali text Akhsar al-Mukhtasarat with Sh. Yusuf ibn Sadiq al-Hanbali. I am providing my complete notes for free from those sessions below. Let us be prepared for this blessed month as much as possible. Since it …
These are my complete notes on the book as taught to us by Ust. Ahmad Zayn al-‘Abidin in Arabic, which is now available on YouTube. Sh. Ibn ‘Uthyameen’s work is a very useful book to get an introduction to Hanbali usool. There are not enough good books in the English language on Hanbali fiqh and …