Mukhtasar al-Kharaqi

By al-Kharaqi

مختصر الخرقي

The most famous base text of the Hanbali school among its early and middle generations, a concise work on jurisprudence composed by al-Kharaqi; Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki counted its questions at two thousand three hundred.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Development of law, theology and institutions

Summary

The book was famous among the early and middle Hanbalis; no book served the madhhab as it did 1. Izz al-Din al-Misri registered three hundred commentaries on it, of which he examined about twenty 1. Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki counted its questions — they reached two thousand three hundred 2.

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Has commentary
al-Mughni

People and things also explored

Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· al-Mughni· Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)

Sources

  1. al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p. 424
  2. al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p. 425
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