Mukhtasar Abi Shuja (Ghayat al-Ikhtisar)
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About The Book
Mukhtasar Abi Shuja — also known as Ghayat al-Ikhtisar — is the universal beginner's matn of the Shafii school. Composed by Qadi Abu Shuja al-Isfahani in fifth-century AH Basra, the matn distils the entire ground of Shafii ibadat and muamalat into a short prose tract of perhaps fifty pages: tahara, salat, zakat, fasting, hajj, sales, inheritance, marriage and divorce, criminal law, judicature. For more than nine centuries it has been the universal first text placed in the hands of beginning Shafii students.
About The Author
al-Qadi Abu Shuja al-Isfahani (434-c.500 AH / 1042-c.1107 CE) — a recognised authority in the traditional Sunni discipline of Fiqh. Further biographical detail confirmed through the published source.
عن الكتاب
متن أبي شجاع — المعروف بـ"غاية الاختصار" — هو المتن المُعْتَمد لمبتدئي الفقه الشافعي في كلِّ الأقطار. صنَّفه القاضي أبو شجاع الأصفهاني في القرن الخامس الهجري بالبصرة، يَستوعب فيه عبادات الفقه الشافعي ومعاملاته في نَثْرٍ موجز. منذ تسعة قرون وهو أوّل ما يُقَدَّم لطالب الفقه الشافعي المبتدئ.
عن المؤلف
القاضي أبو شجاع أحمد الأصفهاني (434-c.500 هـ / 1042-c.1107 م) — من المُعْتَرَف بإمامتهم في Fiqh من تراث السنّة.
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Abu Shuja al-Isfahani: Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Isfahani, known by his kunya Abu Shuja and honored as Qadi, was born in 434 AH / 1042 CE in Basra. He was a Shafiʿi in law, remembered as a jurist, judge, and a man of piety and restraint. For roughly four decades he taught the jurisprudence of Imam al-Shafiʿi in Basra, instructing its people in the rulings of the school, before settling in Madina, where he gave his final years to the service of the Prophet's Mosque. His lasting legacy rests on one short work, the Ghayat al-Ikhtisar, also titled Matn Abi Shuja and Ghayat al-Taqrib. Written as a concise primer covering purification, prayer, fasting, zakat, hajj, transactions, marriage, and the other chapters of Shafiʿi fiqh, it became one of the most widely taught introductory texts in the school. Generations of students have memorized it, and it has drawn a long line of commentaries, among them al-Iqnaʿ of al-Khatib al-Shirbini and the gloss of al-Bayjuri, keeping the matn in active study to the present day. Reports of his death differ sharply. Some place it around 488 AH, others as late as c. 593 AH / 1197 CE, the latter implying an unusually long life. Historians have not settled the question, and the matter is best stated plainly as disputed.
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