⚖️Legal Theory & Maxims (Usul al-Fiqh)

An appropriate description of the law of government

الوصف المناسب لشرع الحكم

Author: أحمد بن محمود بن عبد الوهاب الشنقيطي

About this work

هذا الكتاب يتناول موضوع الوصف المناسب لشرع الحكم من منظور أصولي فقهي، مركزاً على دراسة طرق معرفة العلة في الأحكام الشرعية. يركز المؤلف على أهمية القياس كأداة لاستنباط الأحكام المستجدة، ويناقش طرق استقراء العلة من خلال الوصف المناسب، مستعرضاً تقسيماته وأنواعه. الكتاب يهدف إلى توضيح كيفية استخدام هذه القواعد في فهم وتفسير الأحكام الشرعية، مع التركيز على الجوانب الأصولية والفقهية المرتبطة بالعلة والقياس.

Translation

This book deals with the topic of the appropriate description of the law of governance from a fundamentalist jurisprudential perspective, focusing on studying the methods of identifying the reason for the legal rulings. The author focuses on the importance of analogy as a tool for deducing new rulings, and discusses methods for extrapolating the cause through appropriate description, reviewing its divisions and types. The book aims to clarify how to use these rules in understanding and interpreting legal rulings, with a focus on the fundamental and jurisprudential aspects related to reason and analogy.

Topics covered

introduction
Introduction
Chapter One: On the occasion and the definition of the appropriate
Chapter One: Defining the occasion.
Chapter Three: On the definition of appropriate
Chapter Two: On appropriate divisions
Chapter One: In dividing it according to the occasion
The first section: appropriate divisions according to rational division
The second section: appropriate sections in terms of consideration
The third topic: Ibn al-Subki’s division of it
Section Four: The Imam’s division of it
Section Five: Al-Amidi’s division of it
Chapter Three: Concerning the appropriate transmitter
Chapter Three: Explaining the evidence of Imam Malik’s doctrine
Chapter Eight: On Al-Ghazali’s opinion regarding the acceptance of the mursal
Sources and references

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