Matn Ibn Ashir (Maliki Fiqh), new translation by Sh Hamza Yusuf

[Nawawi619]

http://zaytuna.org/ibnashirbook.asp


There is no release date posted, but they have provided the cover art so far.

[Abdullah Ali al Hanafi]

http://zaytuna.org/ibnashirbook.asp


There is no release date posted, but they have provided the cover art so far.

interesting good to know for english speaking Malikis

[ibn Mikael]

As salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah,

Is anyone familiar with this book? If so, please describe it.

[numanthabit]

http://zaytuna.org/ibnashirbook.asp


There is no release date posted, but they have provided the cover art so far.

Assalamu Alaikum

Is this the text that you mentioned little children in Africa learn, which has been taking Zaytuna years to translate?

[Nawawi619]

Assalamu Alaikum

Is this the text that you mentioned little children in Africa learn, which has been taking Zaytuna years to translate?

As Salamu Alaykum


Little children in Mauritania learn. Risala ibn Abi Zayd which is also considered an intermediate text in Maliki fiqh, nowadays was originally written by the author for children to learn fiqh properly.

[Nawawi619]

As salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah,

Is anyone familiar with this book? If so, please describe it.

As Salamu Alaykum


Click on the link for more info. If not I'll post it here:


Ibn Ashir's didactic poem on creed, basic fiqh and tasawwuf is perhaps the single most memorized text in the African Maliki tradition. It has been used for over four hundred years throughout North and West Africa and is noted for the ease with which it is memorized and the clarity that it provides in the three central tenets of Iman, Islam and Ihsan.

[ibn Mikael]

Walaykum salaam,

I read what was on Zaytuna's site; I meant to ask if anybody had any personal knowledge of this book (from reading it in Arabic or such). If so, please describe what the book contains. I know Zaytuna says it is a poem, but does it give fiqh rulings? I am curious because I find Maliki fiqh to be very interesting (from what I've heard people say of it), but there doesn't appear to be any of their books of fiqh that have been translated into English.

[Nawawi619]

Walaykum salaam,

I read what was on Zaytuna's site; I meant to ask if anybody had any personal knowledge of this book (from reading it in Arabic or such). If so, please describe what the book contains. I know Zaytuna says it is a poem, but does it give fiqh rulings? I am curious because I find Maliki fiqh to be very interesting (from what I've heard people say of it), but there doesn't appear to be any of their books of fiqh that have been translated into English.

As Salamu Alaykum


The description on the website tells what the book contains. The beginning section is on aqida, the middle section is on fiqh (from Tahara to Hajj), and then the final third of the book is on tasawwuf. It is a classical work used in West Africa to study the Maliki madhhab.

When I used to be Maliki, I studied it with Sh Hamza Yusuf, Sh Muhammad Rami Nsour, and other advanced Maliki students from my community.

[UntoldTruth]

As Salamu Alaykum


The description on the website tells what the book contains. The beginning section is on aqida, the middle section is on fiqh (from Tahara to Hajj), and then the final third of the book is on tasawwuf. It is a classical work used in West Africa to study the Maliki madhhab.

When I used to be Maliki, I studied it with Sh Hamza Yusuf, Sh Muhammad Rami Nsour, and other advanced Maliki students from my community.

So why did you leave the Maliki school for the Shafi school??? Just curious.

[Nawawi619]

As Salamu Alaykum

I left the Maliki school because I always wanted to study the Shafi'i madhhab but didnt have teachers at the time so I had to settle for the Maliki school.

When I found teachers who can teach, I ended up leaving the maliki madhhab and becoming a Shafi'i. So far I have studied in the Shafi'i school Risalat al Jamiah, Maqasid li Imam Nawawi, 1st quarter of Umdat as Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), and im currently studying Safinat an-Najah.

In the Maliki madhhab I had an opportunity to study Al Akhdari, Al Murshid al Mu'in, about almost half of Risala ibn Abi Zayd, section of Tahara from Mukhtasar Khalil.