auwliya[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanbali school (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي) is one of the four primary traditional Sunni schools (madhab) of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Iraqi scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal and was institutionalised by his students. The Hanbali madhab is the smallest of four primary Sunni schools, and the rest are Hanafi,… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Shafiʽi (Arabic: شَافِعِي) madhab is one of the four primary traditional schools of Islamic law in the branch of Sunni Islam. It was founded by the Arab scholar Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafiʽi, a pupil of Malik, in the early 9th century. The school rejected “provincial dependence on traditional community practice”… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Mālikī (Arabic: مَالِكِي) school is one of the four main madhabs of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) within Sunni Islam. Malik ibn Anas founded it in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Al-Quran and hadiths as primary sources. Unlike other Islamic fiqh, Maliki fiqh also considers the… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanafi school (Arabic: حَنَفِي) is one of the four traditional primary Sunni schools (madhabs) of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). Its eponym is the 8th-century Kufan scholar, Abū Ḥanīfa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit, a tabi‘i of Persian origin whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم A madhab (Arabic: مذهب maḏhab, Lit: “way to act”) is a school of thought within fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The major Sunni madhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE, and by the twelfth century, almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab.… Read More