Radd al-Muhtār 'ala al-Durr al-Mukhtār ( ar, رد المحتار على الدر المختار) is a book on Islamic jurisprudence (''

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

'') by 18th century Islamic scholar,

Ibn 'Abidin Ibn 'Abidin ( ar, ابن عابدين, Ibn ʿᾹbidīn; full name: ''Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad in ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm ibn Najmuddīn ibn Muḥammad Ṣalāḥuddīn al-Shāmī'', died 1836 CE / AH 1252), known in ...

, whose title translates to "Guiding the Baffled to ''The Exquisite Pearl"''. Radd al-Muhtar is a ''"hashiyah"'' (an annotative commentary) on `Ala' al-Din al-Haskafi's work of Islamic jurisprudence, ''Durr al-Mukhtār fi Sharh Tanwīr al-Absār''. It is widely considered as the central reference for

fatwa A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...

in the

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

school of Sunni legal interpretation. Scholars of the Indian subcontinent often refer to

Ibn Abidin Ibn 'Abidin ( ar, ابن عابدين, Ibn ʿᾹbidīn; full name: ''Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad in ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm ibn Najmuddīn ibn Muḥammad Ṣalāḥuddīn al-Shāmī'', died 1836 CE / AH 1252), known in ...

as "al-Shami" and to this ''hashiyah'' as "al-Shamiyya" or "Fatawa Shami". This voluminous work has been translated into various languages, including Turkish and Urdu. The Arabic Edition comprises eight volumes, As a whole, the text covers a wide range of topics within Muslim law, including the five pillars of Islam, marriage, divorce, trade,

jihad Jihad (; ar, جهاد, jihād ) is an Arabic word which literally means "striving" or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. In an Islamic context, it can refer to almost any effort to make personal and social life conform with Go ...

, inheritance, and other facets of Muslim life.

References

External links

*Radd al-Muhtar Full Arabic PD

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