Fiqh الفقه
The law of worship and dealings — purification, prayer, fasting, zakāh, ḥajj, and then contracts, property and inheritance — taught within a named school rather than as a blend, so a student can follow one line of reasoning to its end.
The books, level by level
Which text comes when. Start at the top unless you already read Arabic — each book says how much of it exists here.
Foundation
Intermediate
Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī
Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī
The most widely taught Ḥanafī matn in the world, and the one book that appears in nearly every US seminary curriculum. Worship and dealings both, stated with no evidence given — the evidence comes at the next level.
PlannedAl-Waraqāt
Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī
Legal theory in about four pages: what a ruling is, where it comes from, and how a scholar gets from a text to a position. The first book of uṣūl anywhere.
PlannedUṣūl al-Shāshī
Niẓām al-Dīn al-Shāshī
The Ḥanafī school’s own first book of legal theory, and the one the South Asian curriculum has begun with for three centuries. Where al-Waraqāt states the Shāfiʿī method, this states the Ḥanafī one.
PlannedMabādiʾ al-Uṣūl
Saʿīd Aḥmad Palanpūrī
A modern primer written for students who found the classical uṣūl texts too compressed to enter. Set today in both Pakistani madāris and at Qalam.
PlannedAdvanced
Sharḥ al-Wiqāya
Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa
Where Ḥanafī fiqh stops being a list of rulings and becomes an argument. The same questions as Qudūrī, now with the reasoning attached.
PlannedNūr al-Anwār
Mullā Jīwan
Ḥanafī legal theory in full — the commentary on al-Nasafī’s Manār al-Anwār. Where the method behind every ruling you have learned is finally set out.
PlannedKanz al-Daqāʾiq
Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī
Ḥanafī law compressed almost to the point of code — every word load-bearing. It is taught precisely because unpacking it is the exercise.
PlannedAl-Mukhtār lil-Fatwā
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mawṣilī
The positions a Ḥanafī muftī actually gives, as distinct from the school’s theoretical strongest view. Qalam sets it for dealings — the half of the law that touches money, contracts and property.
PlannedSpecialisation
Al-Hidāya
Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī
The central work of Ḥanafī law, and the text the final years of every dār al-ʿulūm are built around. Every ruling with its proof, its objection, and its answer.
PlannedAl-Sirājī fī al-Mīrāth
al-Sajāwandī
Inheritance law — the one Islamic science that is genuinely arithmetic. Shares, exclusions, and the calculations that resolve them.
PlannedBidāyat al-Mujtahid
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Comparative law: on each question, what every school held and precisely why they differed. The book that turns a student of one madhhab into a reader of all four.
PlannedAl-Tawḍīḥ wa-l-Talwīḥ
Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa, with al-Taftāzānī
Legal theory at its most demanding — a text and a commentary that disagree with each other, read together. The summit of uṣūl in the Dars-e-Nizāmī.
PlannedNothing here yet
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