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This Book is Concerning the Jurisprudence (Fiqh) of Imam of the Sunna, Ahmad ibn Hanbal ash-Shaibani (may Allah be well pleased with him) by Shaikh al-Islam Imam al-Muwaffaq ibn Qudama (A.H. 541-620) was one of the luminaries of his day and age.
The Esteem Scholar has made this book concise as possible and confined to a single doctrine so that it may be a Mainstay (Umda) for its reader. The Correct Handbali view is thus clear.
It is condensed so convenient for the scholars and easy for the students.
About The Author
Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi was a reputable Classical scholar author of the main Hanbali ‘fiqh’ manual knows as Al-Mughni’, as well as this book ‘Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin’ (a summary of Ghazali’s ‘Ihya ulum ad-din’) and ‘Tahrim an-Nazar’ (‘Censure of Speculative Theology’), an attack on Ibn Aqil’s rationalist views.
He was born in Palestine in 541 AH, where he became Hafidh of the Qur’an at an early age and moved to Baghdad where he studied under some established scholars such as Shaykh Abdul-Qadir in his final days (i.e. before he passed away), Ibn Al-Jawzi, Hibat-ullah Ibn Al-Hasan Ad-Daqaq, Abi’l Fath Ibn Al-Battee, Abi Zur’ah Ibn Tahir, Yahya Ibn Thaabit, Khadeejah An-Nahrawaniyah and others.
The Noble Imam of Al-Hanabilah in Damascus Mosque died in Damascus In the Year 620 Hijri.
About The Translator
Muthar Holland was born in 1935, in the ancient city of Durham in the North East of England. This statement may be considered anachronistic, however, since he did not bear the name Muhtar until 1969, when he was moved-by powerful experiences in the latihan kejiwaan of Subud-to embrace the religion of Islam.
In the years since graduation from Oxford, he has held academic posts at the University of Toronto, Canada; at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, England and at the Universiti Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He Spent time in Egypt and Malaysia and also worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester, England, and as Director of the Nur al-Islam Translation Center in Valley Cottage, New York
His freelance activities have mostly been devoted to writing and translating in various parts of the world, including Scotland and California. He made his Pilgrimage [Hajj] to Mecca in 1980.
Shaikh Muhtar Hollad passed on to Allah’s mercy, on November 5th 2010. He did a great Service to the English Speaking Muslims all over the World.
Bibliographic Information
Title: The Mainstay Concerning Jurisprudence – A Complete Translation of al-‘Umda fi al-Fiqh
Aouthor: Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
Translator: Muthar Holland
Publisher: Al-Baz Publishing Inc,US
Language: English
Length: 347 pages
ISBN: 978-1882216246
Pub. Date: 2010
The Mainstay Concerning Jurisprudence – A Complete Translation of al-‘Umda fi al-Fiqh
