Samiruddin Qasmi ki Tasanif

This is the one piece on this shelf that he did not write. It is by Mawlānā Muḥammad Rūḥ al-Amīn Qāsimī, a teacher at Dār al-ʿUlūm Ḥusainiyyah, Madanī Nagar, Chiṛaī Bhol, in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, and it is an appraisal of Samiruddin Qasmi’s writing by somebody who has read it. The page says so plainly and the structured data says so too.

It opens with a short life: born 25 Muḥarram 1370 / 6 November 1950 at Ghuṭṭī, district Godda; the village maktab, then Madrasa Imdād al-ʿUlūm Ankī, Madrasa Aʿzāz-e-Paṭhna in Bhagalpur, Dār al-ʿUlūm Chhāpī in Gujarat, and Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband, graduating from Dawra-e-Ḥadīth in 1390 / 1970 and completing Takmīl-e-Adab there in 1971, with later particular study in astronomy, calligraphy and English. Then three decades of teaching, imāmat and scholarly service in India and Britain, and from the year 2000 a turn to writing and research.

Its more interesting half is the appraisal. It puts his scholarly identity in four things: arranging the questions of Ḥanafī fiqh in the light of Qurʾān, hadith, the reports of the Companions and the principles of jurisprudence; the compilation of a sighting-based Hijri calendar; the application of astronomy; and easy, evidence-based commentary on the textbooks of the syllabus.

What it says distinguishes the commentaries is worth quoting in summary: plain explanation of difficult passages, the takhrīj of the hadiths, the identification of original sources, lexical research, and a temperate mention of juristic disagreement, in a style meant to be generally understood. And it records that his works have appeared in Arabic, English, Hindi, Bengali, Pashto and Persian.

Most of the works it surveys are on this site: the shelf is at the library, and the account of his life is Samiruddin Qasmi ke Halaat.