مفتاح حق
Writes on the textual and print history of the ḥadīth-sciences tradition.
Mawlānā Mifta Haque completed the ʿālimiyyah programme at Jāmiʿat al-ʿIlm waʾl-Hudā (Dār al-ʿUlūm, Blackburn), then pursued further study in uṣūl al-ḥadīth at Madrasat al-ʿUlūm al-Sharʿiyyah in South Africa and at the Whitethread Institute, where he also studied advanced fiqh. He now teaches at Dār al-ʿUlūm al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah in London.
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How the Ibn ʿAllān manuscript behind the first printed (1300/1883 Būlāq) edition of Fatḥ al-Bārī reached Bhopal, reconstructed from the al-Rasāʾil al-Mutabādalah correspondence.
A reassessment of whether Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī supervised the first printed edition of Muqaddimat Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, read against the colophons of the 1304/1886 Chashma Fayḍ print.