General Issues of Fiqh — Fiqh

• Fiqh and the Merit of Its Scholars
• The First Mufti of the Islamic Ummah
• Jibril's (peace be upon him) Visits to the Prophet ﷺ for Questions and Answers
• Avoiding Haste and Turning to One's Senior
• The Status of the Prophet's ﷺ Fatwas
• The Noble Companions in the Position of Ifta
• The Hadith-Scholars (Fuqahāʾ al-Ḥadīth) Among the Noble Companions
• Ḥaḍrat Muʿādh ibn Jabal, Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī (d. 18 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Abū'l-Mundhir al-Anṣārī (d. 19 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 32 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Abū'd-Dardāʾ, ʿUwaymir ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī (d. 32 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat ʿAlī Murtaḍā, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 40 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Zayd ibn Thābit, Scribe of Revelation, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 45 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 44/52 AH)
• The Faqīh of Makkah, Interpreter of the Qur'an — Ḥaḍrat Ibn ʿAbbās, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 68 AH)
• Ḥibr al-Ummah — Ḥaḍrat ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar, Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-ʿAdawī al-Madanī (d. 74 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Jābir ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 78 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat ʿAlqamah ibn Qays an-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 62 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Masrūq ibn al-Ajdaʿ, Abū ʿĀʾishah al-Hamadānī al-Kūfī, the Faqīh, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 63 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, the Faqīh of Madinah, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 94 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, the Faqīh of Kufa, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 95 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Ibrāhīm an-Nakhaʿī, the Faqīh of Kufa, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 96 AH)
• Ḥaḍrat Abū ʿAbdullāh Makḥūl al-Hadhalī, the Ḥāfiẓ, Faqīh of ash-Shām, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 101 AH)
• Abū ʿAmr, ʿAllāmah ash-Shaʿbī al-Hamadānī al-Kūfī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 103 AH)
• Sālim ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Faqīh of Madinah, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 106 AH)
• Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, the Faqīh of Madinah, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 107 AH)
• Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 120 AH)
• Abū Ḥanīfah Among the Muḥaddithūn: His Teachers and Students in the Science of Ḥadīth
• Imam Abū Ḥanīfah's View on Ḥadīth: His Methodology
• Abū Ḥanīfah as a Tābiʿī
• A Distinctive Custom of the People of Kufa in Hearing Ḥadīth, and Its Bearing on Abū Ḥanīfah
• The Reliability (Thiqah) of Imam Abū Ḥanīfah as a Ḥadīth-Narrator
• The Peers and Contemporaries of Imam Abū Ḥanīfah
• "People of Reasoned Opinion" (Aṣḥāb ar-Raʾy) Among the Muḥaddithūn: Abū Ḥanīfah's Standing
• The Debate Between Imam Abū Ḥanīfah and Imam al-Awzāʿī on Raising the Hands in Prayer
• Did Imam Abū Ḥanīfah Not Know Ḥadīth?
• Why Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī Contains No Ḥadīth of Imam Abū Ḥanīfah
• The Absence of Abū Ḥanīfah's Narrations in the Ṣaḥīḥayn Is No Proof of Weakness in Ḥadīth
• Different Ways of Presenting Ḥadīth: Why Abū Ḥanīfah Did Not Always Cite the Isnād
• In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Twenty Narrations with a Three-Link Chain Come Through Ḥanafī Narrators
• Imam al-Awzāʿī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 157 AH)
• Imam Sufyān ath-Thawrī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 161 AH)
• Imam Mālik, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 179 AH)
• Imam Abū Yūsuf, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 182 AH)
• Imam Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 189 AH)
• Imam ash-Shāfiʿī, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 204 AH)
• Imam ash-Shāfiʿī's Singular Positions (Tafarrudāt): Dispelling a Myth About His View on Divorce
• Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, may Allah have mercy on him (d. 241 AH)
• Imam Aḥmad's View on Ḥadīth: Unity with Abū Ḥanīfah and the True Meaning of Raʾy
• How Ḥanafī Fiqh Took Shape: Imam Abū Ḥanīfah's Collegial Method
• Guarding Against Error: Ḥadīth Above Personal Opinion — In Abū Ḥanīfah's Own Words
• Evidence Over Obstinacy: The Flexibility of Abū Ḥanīfah and His Students, and His Condemnation of Bare Opinion
• "People of Opinion" — Not What You Think: How New Rulings Were Derived Among the Ḥanafīs
• The Order of Sources and Abū Ḥanīfah's Precedence in Codifying Fiqh
• Rebutting a Misconception: Why Abū Ḥanīfah's Ḥadīth Scholarship Is Less Visible
• The Growth of Fiqh, the Importance of the Fatwa, and a Response to the Charge of Rigidity
• The History of the Fatwa: Why Fiqh and Iftāʾ Require a Dedicated Class of Scholars
• The Arrangement of Fatwā Collections: Where Fatāwā Maḥmūdiyyah Stands Among Urdu Compilations
• The Words "Fatwā" and "Iftāʾ": Their Qur'anic Roots and the Ummah's First Muftīs
• The Regional Fiqh Schools of the Companions: Madīnah, Makkah, Kūfah, and Other Centers
• How Fatwās First Came to Be Written Down: From the Companions' Scrolls to the Compilations of the Second Century
• The First Fatwā Collections: Baqī ibn Makhlad and the Compilers of the Third Century
• When the Jurists Began Collecting Their Own Fatwās: From Imam Aḥmad to as-Suyūṭī
• Fatwās in India: From the Khaljīs to Fatāwā ʿĀlamgīrī, Known as al-Hindiyyah
• The First Fatwās in Urdu and the Anonymous Fiqh al-Mubīn Manuscript of 1182 AH
• Muftī Maḥmūd Ḥasan Gangohī: Origins, Family, and the First Years of Study
• The Years of Study: Maẓāhir ʿUlūm, Deoband, and First Practice in Writing Fatwās
• The Teachers of Muftī Maḥmūd Ḥasan: The Masters of Maẓāhir ʿUlūm and Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband
• Diligence in the Student Years: Ten Revisions of Mibzī and a Student's Daily Timetable
• A Juzʾ on the Way to Class, a Given-Away Meal, and Two Paise: Contentment and Trust in Allah
• Eight Hours over a Book: A Diligence That Knew No Fatigue
• Twenty Juzʾ on the Road to Gangoh, and Not One Missed Lesson
• Acumen from Boyhood: A Tray of Sweets and a Boy’s Answer
• Kashf Is No Proof, the Ḥadīth Is: A Question in the Lesson of Sunan an-Nasāʾī
• A Lesson in Jalālayn: Three Akhfashes, ʿUbayd and ʿIbād
• The Lineage of the Isnād: Two Ḥadīth Chains from Muftī Maḥmūd Ḥasan to Shāh Walī Allāh
• Bayʿa and Khilāfa: The Company That Nourished Him and the Mantle He Inherited
• Assistant Muftī at Twenty-Four, and Care for the Sick Among His Students
• Tea, Sweets and Watermelon on Ice: A Generosity That Kept No Account
• “Adab Is a Crown”: His Ways in the Training of Students
• A Glass of Tea, Vinegar and Dry Bread with Salt: His Way with Food and Drink
• A Small Morsel, Nothing Laid By, and “You Have Become Rich”
• Kanpur Weeps: “How Shall I Speak? Where Is the Heart, Where the Mind?”
• Arrival at Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband: The Shaykh’s Diary and Room 14
• Bukhārī at Deoband: How the Second Volume Passed to Muftī Maḥmūd
• Ramaḍān at Masjid Chatta: Preparation from Shaʿbān and the Timetable for the Muʿtakifūn
• The Sheet of Instructions for Masjid Chatta: What to Recite, What to Avoid, and How to Call the Self to Account
• A Day and a Night in Iʿtikāf: Woken at Half Past Two Without a Sound
• The Muftī’s Own Ramaḍān: An Ishrāq Without a Trace of Weakness, and a Qurʾān Each Day
• “Forgive Me”: The Last Day of Iʿtikāf, the Night of ʿĪd, and the Emptied Mosque
• Farewell to Ramaḍān: The Ghazal of Mawlānā Muḥammad Thānī Nadwī ﵋
• “For This One Gathering Alone the Journey Would Have Been Worth It”: The Guests’ Impressions
• The Nurnama: “Here in Masjid Chatta Is a Shaykh of the Ṭarīqa”
• The Nurnama (Conclusion): “Here All the Rusted Hearts Are Retinned”
• “The Qibla Has Changed”: A Morning at Deoband and a Reprimand for an Invented Citation
• The Tea Assembly at the Dār al-Iftāʾ: An Isnād for an Anecdote and a Mango-Stone Down the Collar
• Crumbs from the Cloth and the Miswāk on the Ewer: Midday and the Hours Before the Assembly
• “We Are Not Sitting in a Graveyard”: The Assembly After ʿAṣr as a Clinic of Souls
• From Maghrib to Dawn: Bukhārī in the Dār al-Ḥadīth and Footsteps No One Heard
• Friday at Deoband: The Qāsimī Graveyard, Nails by the Sunnah, and Eighty Ṣalawāt After ʿAṣr
• The First Majlis: A Ḥanafī Imam with Shāfiʿī Followers, Images, and “Every Makrūh Is Ḥarām”
• “You Will Not Buy It in the Bazaar”: Ḥāfiẓ, Iqbāl and Khudi — from the Same Majlis
• A Night’s Disputation at Saharanpur: The Verse of Purification, Fadak, and “A Debt Upon You Until the Day of Resurrection”
• Qaṣd as-Sabīl, an Ijāza Without Bayʿa, and the Mysterious “Mullā Dawāzdah”
• The Second Majlis: Disputations in Verse — Chaman, Qamar, Nāz, Asrār and Mushtāq
• “Last Night’s Dream? God Forbid!” — The Second Day of the Disputation
• Is Aisā Only for Simile? Five Couplets in Answer to the Objection
• “Come and See”: A Poem on the Assembly of the Grand Muftī of India
• The Sāqī-nāma (“The Book of the Cup-Bearer”): “What Is to Be Said of the Cup-Bearer — He Drives One Mad”
• “Were the Qurʾān Not from Allah”: Tafsīr, Taʾwīl, Taḥrīf, and the Word Order in the Verses of Ḥadd
• The Tafsīrs Weighed, “Whoever Kills a Believer for His Faith,” and the Question of the Miḥrāb
• “Al-Bukhārī Never Goes Straight”: Chapter Headings, the Mother of the Two Ṣaḥīḥs, and the Labour of the Muḥaddiths
• The Grades of Ḥadīth and the Four Imams: Where the Muḥaddith Carries Weight and Where the Jurist
• The Kinds of Precedence, the Definition of Number, and Manṣūr’s “I” Against Pharaoh’s
• A Conversation with a Qādiyānī: Does “I Shall Take Thee” Mean Death?
• Atham, the Rope and the Amritsar Bazaar: How the Prophecy Ended
• Reciting Behind the Imam: “The Proof Lies upon the Claimant,” and What Remains Under “Lā Tafʿalū”
• “Whoever Catches the Imam in Rukūʿ”: Three Ḥadīths at Once, and the Question of Jābir al-Juʿfī
• “Now Add the Major Premise”: A Conversation on the Four Madhhabs with One Who Does Not Follow Taqlid
• “Why Is God Not Seen?”: A Conversation with a Doctor Whose Question Had Five Poles
• A Woman as Head of State: A Conversation with a Member of the Jamaat-e-Islami
• The Woman’s Vote; the Argument from Sultana Raziyya and the Queen of Sheba
• Should Women Wage Jihad — and Who Is Fit to Be Head of State
• Why Do Muslims Eat Meat? A Conversation with a Postal Officer
• The Goat Is Lawful and the Pig Forbidden: A Conversation with a Hindu Priest
• Ifta’ and Tafaqquh: How the Titles Faqih al-Umma and Mufti A‘zam-i Hind Came to Him
• The Elders’ Reliance on His Fatwas: Horsemeat in Madina and the Grave of Hazrat Raipuri
• Moving the Grave of Bahadur Shah Zafar from Rangoon to the Red Fort: The Istifta’ and the Answer
• “I Have Sent Your Letter to My Trusted Mufti”: How the Shaykh al-Hadith Leaned upon Him
• Firmness of Opinion: The C.I.D. Case and Refusing to Yield to Authority Alone
• Retracting His Own Fatwa: The Feast Given by the Bride’s Family
• The Utmost Caution in Takfir: Four Cases
• Sharpness of Mind: The Two Exchanged Heads and the ‘Id Moon
• “No One Led Satan Astray”: A Conversation on the Train
• Jumu‘a in a Village near the City, and a Test of Fluent Reading
• “The Qur’an Is Not a Heavenly Book”: An Answer through the Curtain
• Five Short Rulings from the Gatherings: The Basmala at the Abattoir, the Dream-Vision, and Others
• Blessed Habits in the Writing of Fatwas: Seventeen Points
• Fatwa Practice: How He Trained Muftis and Cared for His Students
• The Passing, and the Chronograms of the Year of Death
• An Elegy: “A Mountain of Grief — the Departure of Mufti Mahmud Hasan”
• The Condolence of Mufti ‘Abd al-Rahim Lajpuri: “Do Not Ask of What Befell — How It Befell”
• “A Lamp Is Lit from a Lamp”: On the Bond with the People of God
• “My Fatwas Are in No Way Fit to Be Published”: How Permission Was Won, and the Dream That Explained It
• How the Corpus Was Gathered: The Registers of Deoband and Mazahir — and the Lost Kanpur Ones
• How He Went Over the Fatwas: Thursday to Friday, on the Train, in Hospital
• “A Free Ride Can Be Had to Hell as Well”: Two Instances of His Impatience with Delay
• The Way of the Deobandi Scholars: Comprehensiveness and Moderation
• Firmness and Facilitation: The Faqih al-Umma’s Method in Writing Fatwas
• The Middle Way: Love of the Prophet ﷺ and the Companions ﵃
• The Middle Way: Sufism and the Madrasas
• The Middle Way: Democracy, Communism, Contested Questions and Tabligh
• The Characteristics of Fatawa Mahmudiyya: Why It Is a Whole Library
• The New Arrangement: How Twenty-Four Volumes Were Reassembled
• The Twenty-One Rules of the New Arrangement of Fatawa Mahmudiyya
• Prayer and Thanks: Those Who Took Part in This Work
• The Sources of the Introduction, and the Colophon of Volume One

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