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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

in English.

The author of Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, the

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

University, Islamabad. He has written articles

and lectured on various topics in Islam, as

well as translating from Urdu and classical

Arabic into English. He is currently Lecturer

in Advanced Islamic Sciences at the al-Karam

Institute for Islamic Sciences, Jāmi‘a al-

Karam, Retford, UK.

9 781897 940709

ISBN 978-1-897940-70-9Ta–Ha Publishers LtdUnit 4, The Windsor CentreWindsor GroveLondon, SE27 9NT

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(362 Ah – 428 Ah)

a manual of IslamIc lawaccording to the Ḥanafī School

Translated from the Arabicwith Introduction and Notes by

Ṭāhir MaḤMood Kiānī

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