{
 "id": "concept/umm-al-kitab",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "umm-al-kitab",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أم الكتاب",
  "en": "Umm al-kitab (the basis of the book; the opening surah)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أم الكتاب أصل الشيء، ووردت في القرآن بمعنى الآيات المحكمات التي يرجع إليها عند الاشتباه، وبمعنى اللوح المحفوظ الذي فيه علم الله، وأطلقت في الحديث على سورة الفاتحة، ومنه قوله: «من قرأ بأم الكتاب فقد أجزأت عنه». {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}",
  "en": "Umm al-kitab means the basis of a thing. The Qur'an uses it for the firm verses to which one returns in doubt, and for the Preserved Tablet which holds God's knowledge; the hadith uses it for the opening surah. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "doctrine",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «أم الكتاب», p.3403 of the scan (ends where «أم الولد» cross-reference and «أمهات المؤمنين» begin on p.3403). Footnote citations omitted.",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w02-9"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "أم الشيء أصله، وأم الكتاب أصله. وقد وردت في القرآن بمعنى الآيات المحكمات التي يرجع إليها عند الاشتباه، وأطلقت على اللوح المحفوظ الذي فيه علم الله. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الإطلاق في الحديث",
     "markdown": "أطلق في عدد من الأحاديث على سورة الفاتحة، كقوله: «من قرأ بأم الكتاب فقد أجزأت عنه»، وقوله: «من صلى صلاة لم يقرأ فيها بأم القرآن فهي خداج». {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-kitab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Umm al-shay' is the basis of a thing, and umm al-kitab is the basis of the Book. The Qur'an uses it for the firm verses to which one returns when there is doubt, and for the Preserved Tablet that holds God's knowledge. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Use in hadith",
     "markdown": "The hadith use it for the opening surah, as in the saying that whoever recites the umm al-kitab has been sufficed, and that a prayer without its recitation is deficient. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-kitab",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "ام الکتاب اصل کتاب کو کہتے ہیں؛ حدیث میں سورۃ الفاتحہ پر بولا گیا ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-kitab",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran",
  "concept/bida"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}