Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī (Mukhtasar al-Quduri)

Ḥanafī Jurist, Shaykh Abū’l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ja‘far ibn Hamdān al-Qudūrī, was born in Baghdād in 362 AH/973 CE and died on Sunday, 5th Rajab, 428 AH/1037 CE aged 66. He is considered an utterly truthful (ṣadūq) hadith narrator by Ibn Khallikān, al-Ḥāfiz Ibn Kathīr, Ibn al-Jawzī and others, and was one of the aṣḥāb at-tarjīḥ in the Ḥanafī madhhab, which is one of the highest grades in knowledge of fiqh. Ṭāhir Maḥmood Kiānī is a graduate of Jāmi‘a al-Karam and the International Islamic

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A Manual of Islamic Law According to the Ḥanafī School

The author of Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, the

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Abū’l-Ḥusayn AḤmad Ibn MuḤammad Ibn AḤmad Ibn Ja‘far Ibn Ḥamdān

al-qudūrī al-baghdādī

(362 AH – 428 AH)

University, Islamabad. He has written articles

The Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī is one of the most celebrated and influential treatises in any Muslim school of methodology and thought and is the foundation for the Ḥanafī school. It is both the first source for scholars and a manual for the general reader. Its judgements, based on divine revelation, trace back directly through men of the highest calibre, such as al-Jaṣṣāṣ and Abū Ḥanīfah, may Allah have mercy on them, to ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd æand other great Companions and thence to Muḥammad œ, the Final Messenger of Allah. This is its first ever complete translation

well as translating from Urdu and classical

in English.

Arabic into English. He is currently Lecturer in Advanced Islamic Sciences at the al-Karam Institute for Islamic Sciences, Jāmi‘a alKaram, Retford, UK.

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Translated by

Ṭāhir MaḤmood Kiānī

and lectured on various topics in Islam, as

A Manual of Islamic Law According to the Ḥanafī School

Translated from the Arabic with Introduction and Notes by

ISBN 978-1-897940-70-9

Ṭāhir MaḤmood Kiānī

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