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An Epitome of Hanbali Substantive Law by Yusuf b. ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Hanbali (d. 909/1503) Translated and Introduced by Jewel Jalil Foreword by Dr. Mustafa Baig

كتاب فروع الفقه للشيخ يوسف بن عبد الهادي الحنبلي

AN EPITOME OF HANBALI SUBSTANTIVE LAW

Book Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Dr. Mustafa Baig
• Translator’s Introduction
• Chronology of the Hanbali school
• Principles of Ahmad b. Hanbal’s law
• Determining the official opinions of the Hanbali school
• The Five Legal Rulings
• Encouragement to study Islamic Law
• The Author
• The Manual
• An epitome ofHanbali Substantive Law
• Worship
• Social Dealings
• Marriage
• Divorce
• Injurious Crimes and Legal Punishments
• Judgeship
• Food and Drink

Principles of Ahmad b. Hanbal’s law

The Hanbali scholars have written at length about the sources Ahmad b. Hanbal used to infer his legal verdicts (fatwa). Ahmad b. Hanbal himself did not author any documented work on legal theory (usul al-fiqh), that is, the science which deals with the sources of Islamic law, its order of priority, and the procedures by which substantive laws (figh) are inferred.

The Hanbali jurists filled this gap and wrote on the topic; one of the earliest jurists to write on the subject was Ibn Hamid (d. 403/1011).’°

By studying and examining Ahmad b. Hanbal’s.responsa collections (masa ‘il), the scholars generally agreed that he used five primary sources to issue his legal verdicts.” Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751/1350) and Ibn Badran (d. 1346/1927) listed the primary sources:’? 1. Text of the Qur‘an and the Prophetic traditions. If textual evidence were available, Anmad would base the le-