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The author
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Quduri (362–428 AH) of Baghdad, the leading Hanafi of Iraq in his generation.
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.
Layout
The book of purification — ablution
كتاب الطهارة: الوضوء
فَرَائِضُ الْوُضُوءِ غَسْلُ الْوَجْهِ وَالْيَدَيْنِ إِلَى الْمِرْفَقَيْنِ وَمَسْحُ رُبُعِ الرَّأْسِ وَغَسْلُ الرِّجْلَيْنِ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ.
The obligations of ablution are: washing the face, washing the arms to the elbows, wiping a quarter of the head, and washing the feet to the ankles.
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