The Evident Memorandum

The Evident Memorandum: A Translation and Commentary for Ibn al-Mulaqqin al-Sh?fi??’s Al-Tadhkirah fi al-fiqh - Softcover

Author: Ibn Mulaqqin al-Shafii, Musa Furber

Publisher: Islamosaic

ISBN: 9781944904142

Pages: 630

Weight: 1.0 Kg

Year: 2019

Price: RM 125.00

This volume contains an original commentary for Al-Tadhkirah (The Memorandum), a legal primer for Islamic Law according to the later scholars of the Sh?fi?? school by Ibn al-Mulaqqin, an Egyptian scholar who died in 804 AH/1401 CE. The commentary introduces essential evidence for the core issues of Islamic Law from its primary sources (the Quran, Sunnah, legal analogy, and scholarly consensus).

The Arabic text of Al-Tadhkirah is approximately 8,500 words in length. It is two hundred words longer than Ab? Shuj?? al-A?fah?n? (b. 433AH/1042CE)’s Matn al-gh?yat wa-l-taqr?b (published as The Ultimate Conspectus). Although the two are roughly the same size, Ibn Mulaqqin’s style is more economical than Ab? Shuj??’s, allowing him to cover more within the same word count. And while Ibn Mulaqqin discusses more issues, he does occasionally skip a few details that Ab? Shuj?? includes.

The primary sources for comments in this book are Ibn Mulaqqin’s books of fiqh, including Shar? Mukhtasar al-Tabr?z?, ?Uj?lat al-mu?t?j, and Khul??at al-fat?w?. The bulk of the commentary comes from Shar? Mukhta?ar al-Tabr?z?. Comments and hadith in the commentary can be sourced back to either one of Ibn Mulaqqin’s fiqh texts or a Sh?fi?? fiqh text through an appendix that cross-references each chapter and section in this book against its sources. Each hadith mentioned in the book is traced back to its primary sources, along with a reference to one or more of Ibn Mulaqqin’s hadith works. In the few instances where a hadith is not included in one of Ibn Mulaqqin’s works, it is referenced it to a Sh?fi?? text that does. Through this, readers can be assured that the hadiths cited here are ones that Sh?fi??s themselves use.

Readers will find the book most beneficial after reading The Accessible Conspectus and Shar? al-Waraq?t.