Burhan al Din al Marghinani

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School Sunni Hanafi Era Islamic Golden Age Died 1197		Name Burhan al-Marghinani Region Transoxiana

Books Al-Hidayah, Guidance, The Hedaya: Commentary on the Islamic Laws Influenced by Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf, Muhammad al-Shaybani Similar People Abu Hanifa, Rumi, Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Malik ibn Anas, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
Main interests Fiqh, Islamic History

Burhān al-Dīn Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī (Arabic: برهان الدين المرغيناني‎‎) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. He was born in Marghinan near Farghana in 530/1135 (in present day Uzbekistan) He died in 593/1197. He is best known as the author of al-Hidayah, which is considered to be one of the most influential compendia of Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh).

Life

Al-Marghanini performed the Hajj and visited Medina in the year 544 AH. He died on the 14th of Dhu'l-Hijjah in the year 593 AH one report indicates 596 AH and was buried in Samarqand.

Works

Al-Marghinani works (some extant and others known only from literary references) include:

Nashr al-madhhab

Kitab manasik al-hajj

Kitab fi-l-fara'id (also known as Fara'id al-‘Uthmani)

Kitab al-tajnis wa-l-mazid (collection of fatwas)

Mukhtarat al-nawazil (collection of fatwas, also known as Mukhtarat majmu` al-nawazil and Mukhtar al-fatawa)

Mazid fi furu‘ al-hanafiyya

A commentary on al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-kabir

Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi (his principle work, based on al-Quduri's Mukhtasar and al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-saghir)

Kifayat al-muntaha (unfinished 8-volume commentary on his own Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi )

Al-Hidayah ("The Guide"), a work on Hanafi law and an abridgement of his commentary on Muhammad al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-Saghir.

Teachers

Al-Marghinani's most important teachers were:

Najm al-din Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi, author of al-‘Aqa’id al-Nasafiyyah fi al-Tauhid;

Sadr al-Shahid Husam al-Din Umar bin Abd al-Aziz, the commentator of Adab al-Qadi, the most popular book of Imam Khassaf which contains the Islamic Legal and Judicial System.

References

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani Wikipedia

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