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**anderriter** · 09-05-2008, 01:10 PM

Assalamu Alaikum,

Could someone recommend an English book that relates the proofs in the Shafi'i School (specially regarding Salah)? I do have The Reliance of the Traveller which, despite being an awesome book, doesn't contain the proofs.

Jazak Allah Khair

Saif

As Salamu Alaykum

The only english work that has proofs for the Shafi'i school is the hard to find Fiqh al Ibadat According to the Shafi'i school of Thought. This used to be sold at Alhambra productions website but its out of print and no longer being sold. I'm sure inshallah if you look for this title on the net it might be sold somewhere. It is a modern Shafi'i fiqh work that has evidences for the rulings on ibadat but they are brief. I haven't seen really any work that has been translated that strictly has the proofs for the madhhab (with the exception of some Hanafi works recently translated).

I think its quite dangerous for beginning students to delve into proofs without first learning and understanding the rulings. Traditionally one learns a matun or short work of fiqh, memorizes it and comprehends the material. As one advances in studies, they learn more details to those rulings with the eventual learning of the proofs and reasoning of the school. By that point one is close to the level of mufti.

But I see your point. In this day and age where every do-it-yourself Muslim is banging you over the head to give them dalil to everything you do, out contemporary ulama who have a good command of the english should translate some of the important proof text works of the madhahib.

The ones I know of that are proofs for the Shafi'i school but are in Arabic are the huge works like Al Majmu' of Imam Nawawi (finished by Imam Taqi ad Din As Subki because Imam Nawawi died before completing the work), Al Hawi al Kabir of Imam Mawardi, As Sunan al Kubra of Imam Bayhaqi , and others.

Wa Llahu Alim

09-05-2008, 01:10 PM	#4
anderriter Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	Assalamu Alaikum, Could someone recommend an English book that relates the proofs in the Shafi'i School (specially regarding Salah)? I do have The Reliance of the Traveller which, despite being an awesome book, doesn't contain the proofs. Jazak Allah Khair Saif As Salamu Alaykum The only english work that has proofs for the Shafi'i school is the hard to find Fiqh al Ibadat According to the Shafi'i school of Thought. This used to be sold at Alhambra productions website but its out of print and no longer being sold. I'm sure inshallah if you look for this title on the net it might be sold somewhere. It is a modern Shafi'i fiqh work that has evidences for the rulings on ibadat but they are brief. I haven't seen really any work that has been translated that strictly has the proofs for the madhhab (with the exception of some Hanafi works recently translated). I think its quite dangerous for beginning students to delve into proofs without first learning and understanding the rulings. Traditionally one learns a matun or short work of fiqh, memorizes it and comprehends the material. As one advances in studies, they learn more details to those rulings with the eventual learning of the proofs and reasoning of the school. By that point one is close to the level of mufti. But I see your point. In this day and age where every do-it-yourself Muslim is banging you over the head to give them dalil to everything you do, out contemporary ulama who have a good command of the english should translate some of the important proof text works of the madhahib. The ones I know of that are proofs for the Shafi'i school but are in Arabic are the huge works like Al Majmu' of Imam Nawawi (finished by Imam Taqi ad Din As Subki because Imam Nawawi died before completing the work), Al Hawi al Kabir of Imam Mawardi, As Sunan al Kubra of Imam Bayhaqi , and others. Wa Llahu Alim
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