Al-Aqida Tahawiyyah : Urdu

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Al-Aqeedah al-Tahawiyyah : Urdu,
Al-'Aqidah Al-Tahawiyya
*[A5] Paperback - 48 pages,
by Imam Abu Jafar al-Tahawi,
Urdu tarjuma by Mawlana Qamar Hasan Qadiri Bastawi.
Published by Kutub Khana Amjadia, Delhi.

Description :

Urdu translation of Al-'Aqidah Al-Tahawiyya : The fundamentals of Islamic Creed as accepted by the Ahl al-Sunnah w'al-Jamaah. Al-'Aqidah Al-Tahawiyya though small in size, is a basic text for all times, listing what a Muslim must know and believe and inwardly comprehend.

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 Azdi, may Allah be pleased with him, popularly known as Imam 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.