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Mukhtasar 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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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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al-Mughni

People and things also explored

al-MughniThe phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's wordsThe reports from Imam AhmadObedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)The Hanbali school (madhhab)Abdullah ibn AbbasAbu Bakr al-KhallalAbu Bakr Abd al-Aziz (Ghulam al-Khallal)

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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al-Mughni

Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi's commentary on the Mukhtasar of al-Kharaqi, the most famous of its commentaries; he writes out each question from the base text, then lays out the imams' positions and their evidence and gives his preference. It ran to nine volumes in the author's own hand, and most copies today are in thirteen volumes.