Lataif al-Maarif :
Arabic,
New,*[A4] Hardback - 477 pages,
by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali [d.795h],
Tahqiq by Abdullah ibn Amir,
Published by Dar al-Hadith, Cairo.
Description :
Lata'if al-Ma'arif fima li Mawasim al'Am min al-Waza'if - A detailed treatise on the merits, virtues and practices for the months of the Islamic year. The book is filled with copious references from the Qur'an,
hadith, and statements of the Companions,
may Allah be pleased with them, the jurists, etc.
About the Author :
Best known as
Ibn Rajab, his full name
and titles are: al-Imam al-Hafiz Abu al-Faraj Zayn al-Din `Abd
al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman (known as Rajab) ibn al-Hasan ibn
Muhammad ibn Abi al-Barakat Mas`ud al-Baghdadi al-Dimashqi al-Hanbali
(736-795 AH). Rajab was the nickname of his grandfather Abd al-Rahman,
perhaps because he was born in that month.
Among his eminent teachers were:
---Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Maydumi,
---Muhammad ibn Isma`il al-Khabbaz,
---Ibrahim ibn Dawud al-`Attar,
---Abu al-Haram al-Qalanisi, and,
---Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah.
He was a colleague of the famous
hadith expert
al-Hafiz Abu al-Fadl al-`Iraqi. He devoted himself to the subject until
he became an expert in all the sciences related to
hadith. He then taught
hadith, and
fiqh according to
Hanbali
school, in the Jami` Bani Umayyah and other seats of learning in
Damascus. Among his famous students include scholars like Abul-Fadl
Ahmad ibn Nasr ibn Ahmad, the mufti of Egypt (d. 844 AH), Abu al-`Abbaas
Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr ibn `Ali al-Hanbali (d. 844 AH), Dawud ibn Sulayman
al-Mawsili [d. 844 AH].
He was a leading scholar of the
Hanbali school.
His work
al-Qawa`id al-kubra fi al-furu` is clear evidence of his expertise in
fiqh, demonstrating an extreme, even exhaustive knowledge of the intricacies of detailed
fiqh issues.
He was known for piety, righteousness. People of all schools were
unanimous as to his quality, and the hearts of the people were full of
love for him. He wrote: a detailed 20-volume scholarly commentary on the
Sunan of al-Trimidhi; a commentary on part of
Sahih of
al-Bukhari;
Dhayl (Supplement) to
Tabaqat al-hanabilah; al-Lata`if fi waza`if al-ayyam, Bayan fadl Ilm al-salaf 'ala al-khalaf.
Among his best known and most referred works is
Jami` al-ulum wa al-hikam, the commentary on
al-Arba`un (the forty
hadiths) of al-Nawawi. He added ten
hadiths to the original 40 and commented in detail on all of these fifty
hadiths. This commentary discusses all aspects of the
hadiths, the chain of narrations, the narrators, and the text.
Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani said of him: "He was a great expert in the sciences of
hadith - the historical accounts of narrators, the chains of narration, and meaning of the text."
(Based on: Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani,
al-Durar al-kaminah, ii. 428,
Inba al-ghumr, i. 460; Ibn al-`Imad,
Shadharat al-dhahab, vi. 239; `Abd al-Hayy al-Kattani,
Fihris al-faharis, ii. 636-7).
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Arabic books,
*Dimensions : 24.5 x 17.5cm.
