The Muwatta of Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani By Muhammad Bin al-Hasan Ash-Shaybani ISBN:9780954738006 Author: Muhammad Bin al-Hasan Ash-Shaybani Book Binding:Soft cover Pages 624 Size: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inch Publication year:2016 Description This text on the Muwatta includes chapters on the prayer, funerals, fasting, marriage, divorce, sacrifices, compensation for killing and injury, lost property and more. About The Author: Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani -- He is Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Farqad al-Shaybani. Muhammad was born in Wasit in 132 AH, and grew up in Kufa. He was a pupil of Abu Hanifah. Imam Shafi’i said, "I have not seen anyone more eloquent than him. I used to think when I saw him reciting the Qur’an that it was as if the Qur’an had been revealed in his language." He also said, "I have not seen anyone more itelligent than Muhammad ibn al-Hasan." Dhahabi said, "He narrated from Malik ibn Anas and others, and he was one of the great oceans of knowledge and fiqh, and he was strong [when he narrated] from Malik." Muhammad said, "I stood at Malik’s door for three years and I heard [the Muwatta’] from him [with] more than seven hundred hadith." He died in Rayy in 189 AH. About This Book: Translated by Mohammed Abdurrahman & Abdus Samad Clarke This quote from one of the greatest authorities on hadith of all time is sufficient recommendation. The version of the Muwatta narrated by Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, one of the two leading pupils of Imam Abu Hanifah, directly from his three years of study with Imam Malik will be of particular interest not only to students of Hanafi fiqh, but also to students of hadith in general. Imam Malik composed the Muwatta’ over a period of forty years to represent the "well-trodden path" of the people of Madina. Its name also means that it is the book that is "many times agreed upon"— about whose contents the people of Madina were unanimously agreed—and that is "made easy and facilitated". Its high standing is such that people of every school of fiqh and all of the imams of hadith scholarship agree upon its authenticity. Imam Shafi’i said, "There is not on the face of the earth—after the Book of Allah—a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik." Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi (1114-1176 AH) said, "My breast expanded and I became certain that the Muwatta’ is the most sahih book to be found on the earth after the Book of Allah." Imam Malik -- Imam Malik is the imam of the imams, the leader of the people of knowledge of Madinah, Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn Abi ‘Amir al-Asbahi al-Madani, born in 94 AH, 95 AH or even 99 AH. He was called the Man of Knowledge of Madina. People of knowledge understood that it was him the Prophet saw indicated in the hadith from Abu Hurayra, "People will soon beat the livers of their camels [in traveling in search of knowledge] but they will not find a man of knowledge more knowledgeable than the man of knowledge of Madina." Among his pupils were the Imams Sufyan ath-Thawri, Sa’id ibn Mansur, ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, ‘Abd ar-Rahman al-Awza’I who was older than him, Layth ibn Sa’d who was one of his peers, Imam al-Shafi’i, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, the Malikis ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim, Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi, Ibn Wahb, and Dhu’n-Nun al-Misri. He died in 179 AH on the morning of the 14th of Rabi’ al-Awwal.

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Al-Ghazali's Adapted Summary of Ihya Ulum al-Din, The Forty Principles of the Religion ISBN:9781906949129 Author: Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Al Ghazali Binding: Paperback Pages: 335 Size: 9.0 x 6.0 x 1.0 inch Publication Year: 2021 Language: English Description About This Book: The major opus of Imam al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum ad-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), is condensed in Al-Ghazali's Adapted Summary of Ihya Ulum al-Din, The Forty Principles of the Religion. The original work is a huge and thorough treatise on Islamic mysticism, law, and theology. Al-Ghazali's ideas are introduced in more detail and clearly in The Forty Principles of Religion. One of the greatest works of Islamic spirituality is The Forty Principles of the Religion. Numerous Muslims' lives have been profoundly impacted by this book. It's a book that's still current and motivational today. About The Author: Al-Ghazali, also known as Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali, was a well-known Islamic scholar, philosopher, and jurist who lived from 1058 to 1111 CE. He is regarded as one of the most important personalities in the history of Islamic thought and was born in Tus, in modern-day Iran. Al-Ghazali's writings covered a wide range of topics, including religion, philosophy, law, and spirituality. 

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