The Madinan Way

This is one of the fundamental principles of legal deduction, even if it does not have a wide latitude like other principles. In general,...

There are many sources which state that Malik used to employ istihsan. Al-Qarafi mentioned that sometimes he used to give fatwa on the...

Custom is a matter on which a community of people agree in the course of their daily life, and common usage is an action which is...

This is another of the principles on which Imam Malik often relied when deriving judgements and in that respect Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal...

The great majority of scholars of ethics incline to the view that the governing measure of all that is good and evil in any action is the...

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most-Merciful All praise is due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon our master,...

It is a duty on the seeker of knowledge who wants to know what is correct and true that he should recognise who of them is most worthy of...

The Books of Al-Mudawwana Al-Kubra These are the books contained in the Mudawwana al-Kubra compiled by Sahnun who traveled to Cairo to...

Epistle of Imam al-Ghazali to Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn al-‘Arabi al-Qurtubi concerning the obligation for the ‘alim (Scholar) who is not a...

Ibn Abi Zayd Al-Qayrawani reports Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah as saying: “Ahadith are pitfalls except for the Fuqaha (Jurists)” Ibn Abi Zayd...