Al Durr al Mukhtar : Arabic

  Al-Durr al Mukhtar
ma hashiya Kashful Astar : Arabic,
Two Volumes split into 1 Book,
*[A4+++] Hardback - 780 pages,
by Shaykh al-Imam 'Ala' al-Din al-Haskafi,
Kashful Astaar by Al-Fadl Muhammad Nizam al-Din al-Kiranwi,
Published by H.M. Saeed Company, Pakistan.




Description :

The Durr al-Mukhtar [‘The Chosen Pearl’] is one of the central late texts of the Hanafi school of thought.

Its author, Ala’ al-Din al-Haskafi, may Allah have mercy on him, was the Grand Mufti of Damascus during the 11th Islamic century, and his works, particularly the al-Durr, profoundly influenced all texts that came after it, and became the central reference for legal details and rulings, because of several reasons :


      * The text it comments upon, Tumurtashi’s Tanwir al-Absar, written in the
         beginning of the 11th Islamic century, is the most detailed and precise text
         (matn) in Hanafi fiqh, as Imam Abd al-Hayy Lakhnawi states in al-Fawa’id
         al-Bahiyya;

       * Haskafi summarized and chose the most important conditions, details,
         exceptions, alternate positions, and legal discussions mentioned by the
         great later Hanafi scholars before him (such as Babatri, Kamal ibn al-Humam,
         Mulla Khusraw, Ibn Nujaym, and many others);

       * All this was done in a very precise and extremely concise manner, which
          is a great help for those busy giving fatwa or in court. [However, at times
          it can be concise to the point of becoming confusing, even to scholars,
          which is one of the many reasons there are so many supercommentaries
          on it.]


Numerous supercommentaries were written on the al-Durr. The most famous are the Hashiya of al-Tahtawi and the Hashiya of Ibn Abidin (named Radd al-Muhtar).


Also see Jadd al Mumtar : this is the comprehensive and outstanding supercommentary of Imam al-Ahl as-Sunnat: Shah Imam Ahmad Raza Khan, 'alayhir ar-rahman w'al Ridwan, on the Hashiya (marginalia) of Allamah Ibn Abidin [al-Shaami].


'Radd al Muhtar' is the name of the Hashiya by Ibn Abidin. Ala'Hadrat Fadil al-Barelwi's, 'Jadd al Mumtar' is the sharah.

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*Dimensions: 28.5 x 23 x 4.5cm.