Muwatta Imam Muhammad - Now In English/plus More To Come

[Abul Hasan]

Assalamu alaikum,

Great news for all non-Arab speaking Hanafi's in the West! The Muwatta of Imam Muhammad ibn Hasan al Shaybani has recently been translated into English with the introduction of Imam Abdal Hayy al Laknawi, plus a section on Jarh wa Ta'dil and a short biography of all the narrators found in the Asanid.

There are a number of other books in the pipeline which will aid the purity and strength of the Hanafi schools fiqhi positions and textual evidences.
Amongst them is the classic Hadith collection known as

Athar al Sunan by Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al Nimawi (student of the named Imam al Laknawi) - Contains many proofs for Tahara and Salah as utilised by the Hanafi school with graded classifications of the evidences (e.g. into Sahih, Hasan, da'eef etc). It also shows problems with evidences the Ahnaf reject. It seems that the actual follow up commentaries by Imam al Nimawi, known as: Ta'liq al Hasan and Ta'liq al Ta'liq are not going to be published. If this is the case then the actual reasons why the narrations have been classified can not be seen by the non-Arabic speaker!

Mukhtasar al Quduri by Imam Abul Hasan al Quduri (d. 428 AH) - a famous Hanafi fiqh primer

Talkhis (summary) on Imam al Tahawi's Sharh Ma'ani al Athar by Shaykh Ni'matullah al A'zami of India (This book contains many proofs used by the Hanafi school)

Qawa'id fi Ulum al Hadith by Shaykh Zafar Ahmed al Uthmani (d. 1974)

Qawa'id fi Ulum al Fiqh by Shaykh Habib Khayranwi (This book has a very good defence of Taqleed, as well as scholarly replys to: Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyya, Ibn Hazm, al Shawkani et al who attacked Taqleed in specific terms...)

Kitab al Athar - also by Imam Muhammad ibn Hasan al Shaybani (This book contains many narrations via Imam Abu Hanifa and the fuqaha of Kufa like Ibrahim al Nakha'i and his pupil: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman)

Taqlid - a work by the south African Hanafi: Mufti Zubayr Bayat

See here for more info:

http://www.turathpublishing.com/bookstore.php

If any one wants a copy of the Muwatta, then go directly to the main UK distributor: www.azharacademy.com

I have a copy and it is well laid out, but unfortunately i have detected some minor typo's so far! Example, it says on the cover that Imam Muhammad was born in: 135 AH, but on the back cover it says: 132 AH (which is the most correct date)!

May Allah increase all Sunni's here with Ilm an-Naafi and I hope these works will help to dispel the hyperbolic myths disseminated by the pseudo-Salafi cult against the Sunni Madhhabs, most notably the dominant one in the history of Islam: Hanafiyya.

Amin

[Saleel]

. A friend of mine bought me my copy on the weekend... I should get it sometime this week

(oh, and just making your font a bit smaller... it's huge).

[Saleel]

BTW, are they translating Mukhtasar al-Quduri into english?

[faqir]

Asalamu alaykum,

At the Shaykh Nuh talk in London some time ago the bros from Amalpress mentioned that they were bringing out a new translation of The Hidayah

http://www.netuse.co.uk/clients/amal...ing_hanafi.htm

I must say that I am looking forward to all these books.

Wasalam.

[Saleel]

Asalamu alaykum,

At the Shaykh Nuh talk in London some time ago the bros from Amalpress mentioned that they were bringing out a new translation of The Hidayah

http://www.netuse.co.uk/clients/amal...ing_hanafi.htm

I must say that I am looking forward to all these books.

Wasalam.

A revised translation of The Hedaya is definitely needed. The Hamilton translation (which I have) is extremely poor...

[Abul Hasan]

As-Salamu alaikum

All of the works i listed are going to be in English Insha'allah. As for the Hidaya of Imam al Marghinani, then i wouldn't recommend it as a translated work on its own unless the narrations in it have takhreej on them. Though it is a famous work it does contain some weak narrations and some weak stances in fiqh not accepted by all later Hanafi fuqaha.

Amongst the Hanafi Ulama who did commentaries on it are: Imam Akmalud-Din al Babarti, Imam al Hafiz Badrud-Din al Ayni (in 2 separate works: al-Inaya and al Binaya), Imam Kamal ibn al Humam in his partially completed: Fath al Qadir.

Amongst those who clarified the status of the Ahadith in al Hidaya were: Hafiz Jamalud Din al Zala'i in his famous Nasb al Raya, another was by his teacher: al Hafiz Alaud Din al Turkumani. Al Zaylai's takhreej was followed up by the Shafi'i Hafiz: Ibn Hajar al Asqalani (in his al Diraya), and then by his Hanafi student: al Hafiz Qasim ibn Qutlubugha (in his Munyatul Alma'ie). In the last Islamic century, Nasb al Raya was edited by some Indian Ulama under the title: Bughyatul Alma'ie.

Of the Ulama who showed some of the weak stances is the Hanafi Hafiz and biographer of the Madhhab: Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Qurashi. Of the later Tahqiq's is Imam Abdal Hayy al Laknawi's Ta'liq on al Hidaya (in print). There are also some contemporary Urdu commentaries to it from the Indian sub-continent.

The Hamilton version has mistakes in it and he didn't translate the sections dealing with Ibadat, Taharat, Hajj etc...


A much better work for English speakers would be Multaqa al Abhur by Imam Ibrahim al Halabi with the Tahqiq of our Shaykh: Sulayman Ghawiji - this edition contains gradings of the narrations using works like: I'la al Sunan by Shaykh Zafar al Uthmani.

Wassalam

[Abu Usama]

Salam

talking about translations, does anyone know of a good translation of Ihya ulum id-din?

[faqir]

From the link I have given above:

Eversince its publication, al Hidayah has been read, critically studied and commented upon by a large number of competent scholars. Some had raised the question about the Prophet's sayings quoted in it, and therefore this aspect was examined critically and all the ahadith quoted were traced out in the recognised Hadith Collections. This was done by such eminent scholars as Shaykh Muhiyuddin Abd al Tadir b. Muhammad al Qarashi of Egypt (d. 775/1373) and by Shaykh 'Ala al Din Abdullah b. Yusuf al Zayla'i which was abridged and revised by Hafiz Ahmad b. 'Ali b. Hajar al'Asqalani (d. 852/1448) under the title al Dira yah fi Muntakhab Ahadith al Hidiyah. Thus, the reliability of al Hidayah and the competence and integrity of its author were amply established.

[faqir]

A much better work for English speakers would be Multaqa al Abhur by Imam Ibrahim al Halabi with the Tahqiq of our Shaykh: Sulayman Ghawiji - this edition contains gradings of the narrations using works like: I'la al Sunan by Shaykh Zafar al Uthmani.

Where is this book available Akhi? Is it on the net?

[Saleel]

Salam

talking about translations, does anyone know of a good translation of Ihya ulum id-din?

Well, I've got the translation by Maulana Fazlul-Karim, and I actually think it's okay, though most others wouldn't agree.

T.J Winter (Sidi Abdal Hakim Murad) has done a new translation, and released the books separately. www.kitaabun.com sells them.

Also, you can download a pretty good translation of the "Book of Knowledge" by Nabih Amin Faris from here: http://www.ghazali.org/books/knowledge.pdf