The author
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Quduri (362–428 AH) of Baghdad, the leading Hanafi of Iraq in his generation.
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مختصر القدوري
Mukhtasar al-Quduri
Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Quduri · d. 428 AH · Hanafi · Fiqh
1 volume · 12 books
Introduction
How it came about
Composed as a compact statement of settled Hanafi rulings for study and memorisation.
Method and structure
Rulings only, without evidence, ordered from worship through transactions to judicial matters, in roughly 12,500 legal questions.
Standing in the school
Known simply as al-Kitab, it is the first fiqh text a Hanafi student memorises and the base layer of al-Hidaya.
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