⚖️Hanbali Jurisprudence

Al-Kafi in the jurisprudence of Imam Ahmad

الكافي في فقه الإمام أحمد

Author: أبو محمد موفق الدين عبد الله بن أحمد بن محمد بن قدامة الجماعيلي المقدسي ثم الدمشقي الحنبلي، الشهير بابن قدامة المقدسي (المتوفى: 620هـ) (d. 620)

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كتاب في الفقه على المذهب الحنبلي، ألفه موفق الدين المقدسي جامعًا بين بيان الأحكام الشرعية وأدلتها من الكتاب والسنة، معتمدًا على مذهب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل. وقد توسط فيه المؤلف بين الإطالة والاختصار، وعزا الأحاديث إلى مصادرها من كتب أئمة الأمصار، ليكون كافيًا في بابه. يبدأ الكتاب بخطبة ثم يتناول كتاب الطهارة وما يتعلق به من أحكام المياه والنجاسات والوضوء والغسل والتيمم.

Translation

A book on jurisprudence based on the Hanbali doctrine, written by Muwaffaq al-Din al-Maqdisi, combining an explanation of the legal rulings and their evidence from the Qur’an and Sunnah, relying on the doctrine of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. The author mediated between length and brevity, and attributed the hadiths to their sources from the books of the imams of the regions, so that it would be sufficient in his chapter. The book begins with a sermon and then deals with the book of purity and the provisions related to water, impurities, ablution, washing, and tayammum.

Topics covered

Book sermon
The book of purity
Chapter on the ruling on pure water
Chapter on impure water
Chapter on doubt about water
Chapter on confusing impure water with pure water
Animal sections
A chapter on the categories of pure animals
The door of the utensils
Purification of gold and silver vessels
A chapter on using the vessels of the People of the Book
Chapter on the ruling on the clothing of infidels
Chapter on the ruling on the purity of dead animals
Chapter on siwak and others
Chapter: Obligations of ablution and its Sunnahs
Chapter on wiping over the socks
A chapter on the duration of wiping over the socks
A chapter on the nullifiers of wiping over the socks
Chapter on wiping over the turban
A chapter on wiping over the splint
Chapter on minor nullifiers of purity
Chapter on the etiquette of abandonment
Chapter on what requires washing
A chapter on what is forbidden for one who is in a state of ritual impurity
Chapter on the nature of ritual ablution from impurity

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