Abd al-Muhsin bin Muhammad al-Munif
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Abd al-Muhsin bin Muhammad al-Munif is a contemporary Saudi scholar and specialist in Islamic inheritance law (faraʾid) and jurisprudence (fiqh), known for his academic treatise Sharh Hadith Ibn Abbas fi al-Faraid (Explanation of the Hadith of Ibn Abbas on Inheritance).
Academic Career and Teaching
Abd al-Muhsin bin Muhammad bin Abd al-Muhsin al-Munif pursued an academic career focused on Islamic jurisprudence at the Islamic University of Madinah. He served as an assistant professor in the Department of Fiqh, advanced to full professor of inheritance law in the College of Sharia, and held the post of Dean of Scientific Research (‘amid al-bahth al-‘ilmi) at the university.
In addition to university lectures, al-Munif taught inheritance texts in study circles, including instructing students in Matn al-Rahbiyyah in Mecca during Ramadan 1405 AH. Throughout his tenure at the Islamic University of Madinah, he supervised and examined numerous master's and doctoral dissertations in jurisprudence.
Scholarly Contributions
Al-Munif specialized in the legal and textual analysis of Islamic inheritance laws. His work Sharh Hadith Ibn Abbas fi al-Faraid provides an analytical commentary on the foundational prophetic narration governing the allocation of fixed legal shares and residual estates. He also engaged in classical manuscript editing within the field, publishing a critical edition of Ibn al-Ha'im's al-Fusul al-Muhimmah fi Mawarith al-Ummah (Important Chapters on the Inheritances of the Community) in 1414 AH (1994 CE) based on manuscript witnesses from Aleppo and Riyadh, as well as preparing an edition of Uthman ibn Qa'id al-Najdi's Sharh al-Manzumah al-Lamiyyah fi al-Faraid (Explanation of the L-Rhyming Poem on Inheritance).
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Sharh Hadith Ibn Abbas fi al-Faraid (Explanation of the Hadith of Ibn Abbas on Inheritance) is a specialized legal and hadith treatise dedicated to analyzing the foundational prophetic narration concerning Islamic inheritance law. It provides an analytical commentary on the hadith directing that designated shares of inheritance be given to those entitled to them and whatever remains to the closest male relative, unifying discussions on both its transmission and legal comprehension from classical sources.