The Mukhtasar of Imam Al-Quduri

The Mukhtasar of Imam Imam Abu'l-Husayn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ja'far Ibn Hamdan al-Quduri al-Baghdadi - A Manual of Islamic Law according to the Hanafi School
The Mukhtasar Al-Quduri is one of the most celebrated and influential treatises in any Muslim school of methodology and thought and is the foundation for the Hanafi school. It is both the first source for scholars and a manual for the general reader.

This is its first-ever complete translation in English. Translated from Arabic with introduction and notes by Tahir Mahmood Kiani.

About The Author

Al-Imām al-ʿAllāmah Abu ‘l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Baghdādi al-Qudūri.

Al-Imām al-ʿAllāmah Abu ‘l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādi al-Qudūri. [He is more commonly known by his nisbah (surname), as Imam al-Qudūri.] Some say that his nisbah is ascribed to one of the outlying towns of Baghdad called Qudūrah. Others say that it is ascribed to his family profession, the selling of pots (which in Arabic are translated as qudūr).

He was born – may Allah Most High have mercy on him – in the year 362 A.H. He studied Fiqh from Abu ʿAbdillāh al-Faqīh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Jurjāni. Among the jurists that learned Fiqh at his hands was Abu Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqṭaʿ. The chief justice (qāḍī al-quḍāt) Abu ʿAbdillāh al-Dāmaghāni narrates ḥadīth from him, and so does al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādi. Imam al-Qudūri – may Allah Most High have mercy on him – distinguished himself in Fiqh due to his intelligence. He went on to become the leader of the Ḥanafi scholars in Iraq, and he rose amongst them in status and fame. He was well-spoken in his views, of a bold tongue and constant in reciting the Quran.

1. Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūri: This book is known within the Madhhab as “al-Kitāb.” It is a highly-esteemed matn that is in common use among the imāms and the leaders of the Madhhab. Its fame needs no mentioning. The author of Miṣbāḥu Anwār al-Adʿiyah writes: “The Ḥanafis would seek barakah by reading Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūri during times of epidemic, for it is a blessed book. Whoever memorizes it will be safe from poverty to the extent that it is said: whoever studies it under a righteous teacher, and supplicates upon its completion that he be showered with blessings, then he will become the owner of the number of dirhams equal to the number of legal cases (masā’il) the book covers – and according to the commentator of al-Majmaʿ, the book covers 12,000 legal cases. Numerous commentaries have been written on the book, among them, being al-Jawharah al-Nayyirah of al-Ḥaddādi and Zād al-Fuqahā’ of al-Isbaḥāni.
2.  Al-Tajrīd: This book appears in seven volumes. It discusses the points of difference between our scholars and al-Shāfiʿī – may Allah Most High have mercy on him. He began writing it in the year 405 A.H.
3. Al-Taqrīb: This book covers the points of difference between Abu Ḥanīfah and his students – may Allah Most High have mercy on them all – without including proofs. Then he authored a sequel, al-Taqrīb al-Thānī, in which he mentions the proofs.
4. Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al–Karkhi, and many publications besides.

Al-Quduri was one of the ashab al-tarjih (jurists who weighed and analyzed the strengths of differing verdicts in the madhhab). The leadership of the Hanafis in `Iraq came to rest with him, and his renown rose. His mention recurs in the well-known Hanafi books al-Hidayah and al-Khulasah. He died on 15th Rajab 428 AH in Baghdad, and was buried in his home, but was later transported and buried beside Abu Bakr al-Khawarizmi, another Hanafi jurist.

The Imam passed away – may Allah Most High have mercy on him – on Monday, the fifteenth of Rajab, year 428 A.H. He was buried soon after in his home on Abī Khalaf Lane. He was later moved to a cemetery on al-Manṣūr Street, and there he was laid to rest beside the Ḥanafi jurist Abu Bakr al-Khawārizmi.

 Taken from the preface of: Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Ghunaymi al-Maydāni, Shaykh Bashhār Bakrī ʿArrābī (taḥqīq and takhrīj), Shaykh ʿUmar al-Miṣri (foreword and verification), al-Lubāb fī Sharḥ al-Kitāb. Al-Maktabah al-ʿUmarīyyah: Damascus.

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• ISBN 13: 978-184200-11-89
• ISBN: 10: 1842001189
• ISBN: 9781842001189
• SKU 1: TISSPACODFTQAS
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• SKU 3: 0118
• SKU 4: 978-1-84200-118-9
• MPN: 9781842001189
• ASIN: 0118
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• Author:  Al-Imām al-ʿAllāmah Abu ‘l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Baghdādi al-Qudūri.
• Edited and illustrated By: Al-Imām al-ʿAllāmah Abu ‘l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Baghdādi al-Qudūri.
• Translated By: Tahir Mahmood Kiani
• Publisher: Ta-Ha Publications (Taha Publishers)
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• Publication Date: 2010
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• Pages: 354
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