Sharh Mushkil al-Athar : 16 Vols,
Arabic,
New,
*[A4] Hardback - 7000+ pages, 16 Volume Set,
by Imam Abu Jafar al-Tahawi [d.321h],
Taliq, Tahqiq by Shaykh Shuayb al-Arnaut,
Published by Makataba Ashrafia, Quetta.
Description :
Sharh Mushkil al-Athar : This encyclopaedic work deals in analysing, explaining, providing alternatives, etc as well as its applicable nature of thousands of transmissions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ, be they true or false.
In sixteen volumes, it is by far the largest and earliest work to have survived from the third century Hijri. It has been used as a source of reference by students and teachers of Fiqh, Hadith & other sciences to sift through what has been said by the collated ahadiths.
This Edition : Pakistan print in 16 volumes. Decent binding, but an average subcontinent print. See images below for sample pages.
About Imam Tahawi :
He is Imam Abu Ja'far Ahmad bin
Muhammad bin Salamah bin Salmah bin `Abd al Malik bin Salmah bin Sulaim
bin Sulaiman bin Jawab al-Azdi, may Allah be pleased with him,
popularly known as Imam al-Tahawi, after his birth-place in Egypt, is
among the most outstanding authorities of the Islamic world on Hadith and fiqh
(jurisprudence). He lived 239-321 A.H., an epoch when both the direct
and indirect disciples of the four Imams: Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik,
Imam Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal - were teaching and practicing.
This period was the zenith of Hadith and fiqh studies, and
Imam Tahawi studied with all the living authorities of the day. He
began as a student of his maternal uncle, Isma'il bin Yahya Muzni, a
leading disciple of Imam Shafi'i. Instinctively, however, Imam Tahawi
felt drawn to the corpus of Imam Abu Hanifah's works. Indeed, he had
seen his uncle and teacher turning to the works of Hanafi scholars to resolve thorny issues of Fiqh, drawing heavily on the writings of Imam Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani and Imam Abu Yusuf, who had codified Hanafi fiqh. This led Imam Tahawi to devote his whole attention to studying the Hanafi works and he eventually joined the Hanafi school.
Imam Tahawi, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi, stands out not only as a prominent follower of the Hanafi school
but, in view or his vast erudition and remarkable powers of
assimilation, as one of its leading scholars. His monumental scholarly
works, such as Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar and Mushkil al-Athar, are encyclopaedic in scope and have long been regarded as indispensable for training students of fiqh. Imam Abu Ja'far
al-Tahawi lived until 321 hijri /933.
*Single Volume Dimensions : 24.5 x 19cm.
