al-Waraqat

الورقات في أصول الفقه

Al-Waraqat in usul al-fiqh by Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 478 AH) — a two-page primer gathering the headings of legal theory: divisions, command and prohibition, the general and the specific, the ambiguous and the clarified, abrogation, consensus, reports, analogy, ijtihad, taqlid, the ordering of the proofs and fatwa; the first usul text in the curriculum 1 2.

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Al-Waraqat in usul al-fiqh by Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 478 AH) — a two-page primer gathering the headings of legal theory: divisions, command and prohibition, the general and the specific, the ambiguous and the clarified, abrogation, consensus, reports, analogy, ijtihad, taqlid, the ordering of the proofs and fatwa; the first usul text in the curriculum 1 2.

The author

المؤلف: عبد الملك الجويني إمام الحرمين شيخ الشافعية في عصره.

Commentaries and teaching

عليها شروح كثيرة أشهرها شرح الشرواني وشرح ابن الفركاح ونظمه ابن حجر وابن تاج الدين السبكي? لا — ونظمه العمريطي والفضالي 1.

For younger visitors

Al-Waraqat is the beginner's first usul al-fiqh text in most study circles.

Sources

  1. Scientific Matns and their Effect on Education — Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Salih
  2. al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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