Kitab Tanwir Basa'ir al-Muqallidin

*[A4] Hardback - 309 pages,

by Imam Mar'i bin Yusuf al-Karmi al-Hanbali [d.1033h],
Tahqiq by Abdullah al-Qandiri,

Published by Dar ibn Hazm.

 

 

 

Description :

 

Kitab Tanwir Basa'ir al-Muqallidin fi Manaqib al-'Aimm'a al-Mujtahidin : 'The Book of the Enlightening Insights of the Conformists : In the Excellence of the Four Imams.' Shaykh Mar'i bin Yusuf al-Karmi extolls the righteousness and reasoning of the 4 Mujtahid Imams, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik ibn Anas, Imam Idris al-Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Ridwan-Allahi ta'ala alayhi 'majmain.

 

 

 

 

About the Author :

 

He is Imam Mar'i ibn Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr ibn Ahmad al-Hanbali al-Maqdisi al-Karmi. He was a Palestinian born scholar who resided in Egypt and wrote extensively on various sciences. Mar'i ibn Yusuf al-Karmi was particularly remembered for making two important contributions to Hanbali fiqh :
 

---[i]. Ghayat al-Muntaha, which came as a merger between the two relied-upon manuals, al-Iqna’ and Muntaha al-Iradat ; and,
---[ii]. Dalil al-Talib, a summarisation of Muntaha al-Iradat. This manual received various commentaries, the most famous of which is Manar al-Sabil, by Ibn Dhuwayan.

 

 

Amongst his known works :

 

---Kitab Tanwir Basa'ir al-Muqallidin,

---Risala fi ma Waqa'a fi Kalam al-Sufiyah min al-Alfaz al-Muhimah lil Takfir,
---Ghayat al-Muntaha,

---Dalil al-Talib,

---Fawaid al-Fikr fil Mahdi al-Muntazar,

---Aqawilut fi Tasiqat fi Tawil wa Asma' wa-Sifat,

---Kawkab al-Gharib fi al-Ikhtisar Dalil al-Talib li-Nayl al-Matalib,

---Al-Burhan fi Sha'n Shurb al-Dukhan,

 

 

He passed away in 1033 After Hijri [1624 Common Era].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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