⚖️Legal Theory & Maxims (Usul al-Fiqh)

History of Islamic legislation

تاريخ التشريع الإسلامي

Author: مناع بن خليل القطان (المتوفى: 1420هـ) (d. 1420)

About this work

هذا الكتاب "تاريخ التشريع الإسلامي" للدكتور مناع القطان يتناول تاريخ التشريع الفقهي في الإسلام من منظور تاريخي ومنهجي. يركز المؤلف على عصر التشريع من بداية البعثة النبوية حتى وفاة الرسول، مبيناً حالة العرب والعالم آنذاك ومهمة الإسلام التشريعية. كما يدرس مصادر التشريع الرئيسية وهي القرآن والسنة، ويناقش مكانة السنة في التشريع الإسلامي وتطور علم الحديث. الكتاب يهدف إلى فهم نشأة الفقه الإسلامي وتطوره عبر العصور، ودوره في تقديم حلول للمشكلات الحياتية في كل عصر.

Translation

This book, “The History of Islamic Legislation” by Dr. Manna Al-Qattan, deals with the history of jurisprudential legislation in Islam from a historical and methodological perspective. The author focuses on the era of legislation from the beginning of the prophetic mission until the death of the Messenger, showing the state of the Arabs and the world at that time and the legislative mission of Islam. It also studies the main sources of legislation, which are the Qur’an and the Sunnah, and discusses the place of the Sunnah in Islamic legislation and the development of hadith science. The book aims to understand the origins of Islamic jurisprudence and its development throughout the ages, and its role in providing solutions to life’s problems in every era.

Topics covered

Introductions
Introduction to the fourth edition
Introduction to the first edition
Introduction
Chapter One: The era of legislation
Legislation in the life of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace
Sources of legislation in this era
First: The Holy Qur’an
entrance
Legislation in Mecca
Legislation in the city
The connection between civil legislation and Meccan legislation
Advantages of Mecca and Medina
The Qur’an’s method of requesting and making choices and its approach to explaining rulings
Second: The Sunnah and its place in Islamic legislation
Sunnah is a language
Authenticity of the Sunnah
The relationship of the Sunnah to the Qur’an in terms of the rulings contained therein
Mutawatir and singles
The definite and speculative ones are from the Sunnah
The validity of the authentic Sunnah, whether it is frequent or single
Those who disagree with the authenticity of the Sunnah
Collecting and writing down the hadith
Methods of recording hadith and the most famous works on that
The most important hadith books and their explanations

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