منهاج الطالبين

Minhaj al-Talibin

Imam al-Nawawi · d. 676 AH · Shafi'i · Fiqh

1 volume · commented on by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami and al-Ramli

Introduction

The author

Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (631–676 AH) of Damascus was a hadith master and jurist whose editorial judgement shaped the received Shafi'i position.

How it came about

Minhaj al-Talibin is a refinement of al-Rafi'i's abridgement of al-Ghazali's Wajiz, correcting it where al-Nawawi judged the stronger transmission to lie elsewhere.

Method and structure

Extremely condensed prose with a fixed technical vocabulary that signals the relative strength of each opinion in a word or two.

Standing in the school

The standard reference of the later Shafi'i school; the commentaries of Ibn Hajar al-Haytami and al-Ramli on it define the school's authoritative rulings today.

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