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Commencement of the Worshiper and Sufficiency of the Ascetic – Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid wa Kifāyat al-Zāhid

بداية العابد وكفاية الزاهذ

By Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Allah al-Bali (1110-1192 H) Translation & Annotation by John N. Starling

COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORSHIPER AND SUFFICIENCY OF THE ASCETIC

Book Contents

• Introduction to the Second Edition
• About the Author
• Purification
• Istinjāʾ, Istijmār, Manners of the Restroom
• Personal Hygiene
• Wuḍūʾ
• Wiping the Khuff
• Invalidators of Wuḍūʾ
• Ghusl
• Tayammum
• Removal of Najāsah
• Various Impurities
• Blood of Women
• Prayer
• Adhān and Iqāmah
• Prerequisites, Pillars, Obligations, Recommendations
• Prostration of Forgetfulness
• Recommended Prayers
• Prohibited Times
• Congregational Prayer
• Imāmship
• Excused from Congregation
• Prayer of the Ill
• Shortening Prayer
• Combining Prayer
• Fear Prayer
• Friday Prayer
• Friday Prayer Location
• ‘Eid Prayers
• Takbīr of ʿEid
• Eclipse Prayer
• Rain Prayer
• Funerals
• Washing
• Shrouding
• Funeral Prayer
• Burial
• Condolences
• Zakāt
• Cattle & Sheep
• Earthly Yield
• Gold & Silver
• Fiṭr
• Distribution
• Charity
• Fasting
• Obligations, Breaking the Fast, Intention
• Fast Invalidators
• Expiations & Recommended Acts
• Voluntary Fasting
• Iʿttikāf
• Ḥajj
• Miqāts
• Iḥrām & Ḥajj Types
• Prohibitions of Iḥrām
• Expiations
• Appraisal of Game Animals
• Sanctuary of Makkah & Madinah
• Entering Makkah
• Description of Ḥajj & ʿUmrah
• Minā & Madīnah
• Pillars & Obligations of Ḥajj
• Hady, Uḍḥiyah & ʿAqīqah
• Distribution of Hady
• ʿAqīqah
• Military Service
• Recruitment & Spoils
• Booty
• Pacts
• Breaking Pacts
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• About the Translator

Introduction of the Author

I have sought Allāh’s guidance in authoring a beneficial and concise manual restricted to the acts of worship based on the jurisprudence of the highly regarded Imām Abū ʿAbdullāh Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal to encourage the disciple and grant access to those seeking benefit.

I have called it, ‘Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid wa Kifāyat al-Zāhid’. I request that Allāh accept it and to benefit everyone, both inquirer and inquired of, who busies themselves with it, for indeed He is the most generous in whom to place one’s hope.