بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد الله رب العلمين، والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين، أما بعد
The Beginner's Gift: A Classical Primer in Hanafi Fiqh from Saudi Arabia
"This is a clear translation of an excellent primer in the fiqh of prayer, with very useful commentary. Highly recommended."
Faraz Rabbani; SeekersGuidance (www.SeekersGuidance.org)
About the Book
Authored by the renowned 11th Century Ḥanafī scholar, Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā, The Beginner's Gift is a concise primer on Islamic Law covering the elementary legal issues relating to purification and prayer. To supplement the text, the translator has added commentary based on the extensive explanatory notes of Shaykh Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad al-Mullā, a descendant of the author, editor and publisher of this text in Arabic. Also included are appendices related to supplications, background information on the area of al-Aḥsā’, history of the Ḥanafī school in al-Aḥsā’, the al-Mullā family, and an unpublished treatise on the Ḥanafī school by a recent eminent scholar of the al-Mullā family.
The Author
Imām Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā, described as 'Mufti of the East' was a prominent Ḥanafī scholar hailing from al-Aḥsā’, located in the eastern part of modern day Saudi Arabia. He studied with the scholars of his city and then travelled to the Ḥijāz for further studies. Al-Muḥibbī said about the author in Khulāsah al-Athar (1/18-19), “Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā al-Aḥsā’ī al-Ḥanafī is from the major scholars and Imāms, adorned with the quality of conviction and engrossed with worship. He was a jurist and grammarian, well grounded in a number of sciences. He studied in his city with a number of scholars and studied in Makkah with its jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Murshidī who wrote for him a detailed license indicating in it to his expertise in the Islamic sciences.”
The Commentator
Shaykh Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad al-Mullā is a Saudi born contemporary scholar of Ḥanafī fiqh who memorized the Quran and studied with his father along with other scholars in his native al-Aḥsā’. He also spent a number of years residing in the Two Holy Sanctuaries seeking knowledge from some of the senior scholars present there. These included Shaykh Muhammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī, Shaykh Yʿaqūb ʿAlī Murād al-Balūshī, Shaykh Aḥmad Jābir Jibrān, Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahdal, Shaykh ʿĀshiq Ilāhī al-Barnī, and not least his uncle, the graduate of the al-Ṣawlatiyyah school, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mullā. He also benefitted from the circles of scholars such as Shaykh Ḥasan al-Mashāṭ, Shaykh Ismāʿīl Zayn al-Yamānī and Shaykh ʿAbdullah bin Saʿeed al-Laḥjī. He is a graduate in Shariah of the Ibn Saud University and currently supervises circles of study in al-Aḥsā’ as well as the editing and publishing of rare works.
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