Al-Hidayah maa Ahadithiha
الھدایہ مع احادیثھا
الهداية مع احاديثها وأصولها
The text of al-Marghinani's al-Hidayah in seven volumes, with three hadiths and the governing principle set beneath every ruling
- Subject
- Fiqh
- Language
- Arabic
- Volumes
- 7
- Year
- 2024
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- 1Volume 1جلد اولal-Hidayah part one, Kitab al-Taharah to Kitab al-Jana'iz.ReadDownload
- 2Volume 2جلد ثانیal-Hidayah part one, Kitab al-Zakah to Kitab al-Hajj.ReadDownload
- 3Volume 3جلد ثالثal-Hidayah part two, Kitab al-Nikah to the chapters on maintenance.ReadDownload
- 4Volume 4جلد رابعal-Hidayah part two, Kitab al-Itaq to Kitab al-Waqf.ReadDownload
- 5Volume 5جلد خامسal-Hidayah part three, Kitab al-Buyu' to Kitab al-Wakalah.ReadDownload
- 6Volume 6جلد سادسal-Hidayah part three, Kitab al-Da'wa to Kitab al-Ghasb.ReadDownload
- 7Volume 7جلد سابعal-Hidayah part four, Kitab al-Shuf'ah to Kitab al-Khuntha.ReadDownload
Al-Hidayah maa Ahadithiha sets three hadiths and the principle behind them beneath every ruling of al-Marghinani's al-Hidayah, in seven volumes. The matn is given fully vowelled; the hadiths are drawn from thirteen of the earliest collections and each is referenced to its book, chapter and number, and labelled as a hadith, a saying of a Companion or a saying of a Successor, so that the weight of the ruling can be judged. The principles and the glossary of difficult words are in Urdu. Endorsed by Mufti Abu'l-Qasim Nomani, rector of Darul Uloom Deoband.
In 1943 Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanwi asked his nephew Mawlana Zafar Ahmad Uthmani for something that did not then exist: a hadith set beneath every ruling of Hanafi fiqh. His reason was that no Hanafi book had one. Not al-Mabsut, not al-Jami’ al-Saghir, not al-Jami’ al-Kabir, not al-Hidayah, not al-Quduri, not Nur al-Idah, not al-Durr al-Mukhtar. Every one of them states the ruling and leaves the evidence somewhere else, which is how the school came to be called Ashab al-Ra’y, the people of opinion. Mawlana Zafar Ahmad answered with I’la al-Sunan in seventeen volumes.
Al-Hidayah maa Ahadithiha finishes that work for al-Hidayah, and it can because two books have come into print since. Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah and Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq are twelve volumes each, full of the sayings of the Companions and the Successors on which so many of the school’s finer rulings actually rest, and both were still manuscripts when I’la al-Sunan was written. They are also the two collections al-Bukhari drew on, and both men were his teachers, so evidence taken from them is evidence a Shafi’i, a Maliki or an Ahl-i Hadith reader will accept.
The method is stated on the title page in one line: in this there are three hadiths for every single ruling, and for most rulings the principle as well. Eight things follow from it. The matn of al-Hidayah is given fully vowelled, so it can be read aloud. Every ruling carries a verse, a hadith, a saying of a Companion or a saying of a Successor. Which of those four it is, is said plainly, because that is what settles whether a ruling is a sunnah or merely recommended. The hadiths come from thirteen collections only, all of them early. The principle behind the ruling is stated in Urdu beneath it. Difficult words are glossed. And the book is set so that it can be put on the desk and taught from.
The extraction and arrangement of the hadiths, and the writing of the principles, are the work of Mufti Muhammad Tabarak Qasmi of Godda, Jharkhand: six volumes of them in nine months, drawing on Athmar al-Hidayah, the author’s own fifteen-volume Urdu commentary on the same text. Two endorsements from Darul Uloom Deoband open the first volume: Mufti Abu’l-Qasim Nomani, its rector and Shaykh al-Hadith, on 25 June 2024, and Mufti Munir al-Din Ahmad Uthmani Naqshbandi, its teacher of hadith, on 3 July 2024.
Published March 2024 by Maktaba Thamir, Manchester. The same method is applied to al-Quduri in Al-Quduri maa Ahadithihi, to Nur al-Idah in Nur al-Idah maa Ahadithihi, and to Imam Muhammad’s own al-Asl.