Minhat al-Suluk : Arabic, New,
fi sharh Tuhfat al-Muluk,
[A4] Hardback - 550 pages,
Minhat al-Suluk by Imam Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Hanafi [d.855h],
Tuhfat al-Muluk by Zayn al-Din ibn Abi Bakr al-Razi [d.666h],
Tahqiq wa Taliq by Dr Ahmed Abd al-Razaq Abdullah,
Published by Dar al-Nawadir, Beirut.
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Minhat al-Suluk fi sharh Tuhfat al-Muluk - This work is a classical introductory text on fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) for the Hanafi school of law. Minhat al-Suluk is the sharh of Imam Zayn al-Din al-Razi's, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi's, Tuhfat al-Muluk.
This Edition : This is a decent publication by Dar al-Nawadir of Beirut, Lebanon. Good quality binding and print onto cream paper. Contains extensive notes and references.
Imam Mahmud ibn Ahmad Badr al-Din al-A'ini,
He is al-Imam al-Allamah, Badr al-Din Mahmud b. Ahmed b. Musa b. al-'Ayntabi al-Hanafi al-'Ayni, rahmatullahi ta'a'a 'alayhi. He was born 762 AH (1360 CE), and died 855 AH (1453 CE) and was a scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab. Al-'Ayni is an abbreviation for al-'Aynt?bi, referring to his native city. He was born into a scholarly family in 762 hijri in the city of 'Aynt?b (which is now Gaziantep in modern Turkey). He studied history, adab, and Islamic religious sciences, and was fluent in Turkish. There is some evidence that he also knew at least some Persian.
In 788 hijri he travelled to Jerusalem, where he met the Hanafi Shaykh al-Sayr?m?, who was the head of the newly established Z?hiriyah madrasah and kh?nqah (Sufi retreat.) Al-Sayrami invited al-'Ayni to accompany him home to Cairo, where he became affluent. From Cairo he went to teach in Damascus, where he was appointed muhtasib (overseer of sharia in the marketplace) by the amir, and returned to Cairo some time before 800 hijri.
Al-'Ayni's prestige grew as he aged. Mu'ayyad Shaykh named him ambassador to the Qaramanids in 823 hijri. Later in life he would be called upon to lecture on learned topics before the Sultan, sometimes reading history aloud in Arabic and explaining it in Turkish for the Sultan's benefit. The Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay is reported to have said "Islam is known only through him" and "If not for al-'Ayntabi there would be something suspect in our Islam." Barsbay often turned to Imam al-'Ayni for advice on legal matters, and named him chief Hanafi qadi (judge) in 829 hijri.
Some of his written works are;
--- 'Umdat al-Qari fi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari ; one of the finest commentaries.
--- al-Binaya Sharh al-Hidaya; ie al-Hidaya al-Mubtadi in hanafi fiqh,
--- Rumz al-Haqa'iq fi Sharh Kanz al-Daqa'iq ; commentary on the Hanafi fiqh manual,
--- al-Sayf al-Muhannad f? Sirat al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad ; a biography of the Sultan Mu'ayyad Shaykh,
--- 'Iqd al-Juman fi Ta'rikh Ahl al-Zaman ; his own rendition of History,
--- ar-Rad al-Waafir ;
--- Nukhab al-Afkar fi Tanqih Mabani al-Akhbar fi Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar ; encyclopaedic commentary on Imam al-Tahawi's masterpiece Sharh Mushkil al-Athar,
--- Sharh Sunan Abu Dawud ;
--- al-Rawdh al-Zahir fi Sirat al-Malik al-Zahir Tatar ;
He died in 855 AH (1451 CE) at the age of ninety-three, having outlived all his children, and was buried in his own madrasah in Cairo.
More Arabic Books.
Also see Darsi Books.
Dimensions : 24.5 x 17.5cm (approx).
