Practical jurisprudence rooted in the classical Ḥanafī school.
Ḥanafī fiqh notes, beginning with the entry-level primers — Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, Nūr al-Īḍāḥ — and progressing through the canonical chapters of jurisprudence: ritual purity, prayer, zakat, fasting, hajj, transactions, marriage, criminal law, and the rest.
Where the question of legal school arises, IlmHive defaults to the Ḥanafī position, with the school noted on each series. Comparative material from other schools is welcome but is always marked as such.
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An entry-level Ḥanafī fiqh primer by Imām al-Qudūrī (d. 428 AH), foundational across the South Asian and Anatolian curricula.
A short biography of ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd, sixth to accept Islam, covering his titles, his place among the six Companions recognised for iftāʾ and his years teaching in Kūfa.
According to the Aḥnāf, Ṣalāt al-Khusūf should be prayed individually at home, similar to a nafl ṣalāh, drawing on the ḥadīth that prayer in one's house is more virtuous except for the ordained ṣalāh.
The Ḥanafī rulings on ṣalāt al-kusūf: whether it is sunnah or wājib, how the Shawāfiʿ count the rukūʿ differently, the silent recitation and the absence of a khuṭbah.
A chronological reference table of Ḥanafī jurists from Imām Abū Ḥanīfah onward, listing each scholar's date of death (Hijrī) alongside their teachers and students.
Ibn Kamāl Pāshā (d. 940/1534) sorted the jurists of the Ḥanafī madhhab into seven ranks defined not by personal brilliance but by the kind of juristic work each performed within the school.
Consolation for bereaved parents from the Sunnah: ḥadīth on the resting place of children in Jannah, the shield their loss affords from the Fire and the intercession it earns them.
Drawn from Badāʾiʿ al-Ṣanāʾiʿ and Tuḥfat al-Fuqahāʾ: the periods of ḥayḍ and nifās according to the schools, the colours of blood that count and the rulings for a mustaḥāḍah.
Extract from Badāʾiʿ al-Ṣanāʾiʿ by ʿAllāmah al-Kāsānī and Tuḥfat al-Fuqahāʾ by ʿAllāmah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Samarqandī summarising the key points on the topic of masḥ upon bandages.
Extract from Badāʾiʿ al-Ṣanāʾiʿ by ʿAllāmah al-Kāsānī and Tuḥfat al-Fuqahāʾ by ʿAllāmah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Samarqandī summarising the key points on the topic of masḥ ʿalā al-khuffayn.
Ruling on types of water one may do wuḍūʾ with, and which mixtures or used waters are excluded.
He is Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Baghdādī al-Qudūrī, the Ḥanafī jurist (d. 428 AH) whose Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī became one of the most widely studied primers in the madhhab.
How the sharʿī distance defines a musāfir: measured from locality boundaries, route-based not as the crow flies, with intention to travel and to stay under fifteen nights.
The first ḥadīth mentioned in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī under the chapter of prostration during recital of the Qurʾān, narrated by ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd.
The fifteen possible verses of sujūd in the Qurʾān, ten agreed by consensus, with the Ḥanafī rulings on performing sajdat al-tilāwah, when it is wājib and how it falls in ṣalāh.
The farāʾiḍ, sunan, mustaḥabbāt, and nullifiers of wuḍūʾ, drawn from Qurʾān 5:6 and the standard Ḥanafī summaries.
Ṣalāh is the second pillar of Islām. We thank Allāh for giving us the ability to pray to Him.
