Abd Allah bin Mani al-Ruqi
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Abd Allah bin Mani al-Ruqi (b. 1383 AH / 1964 CE) is a Saudi scholar of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence based in Riyadh, known for his documentation of the legal opinions and commentaries of Abd al-Aziz bin Baz.
Lineage and early life
His full name is Abu Muhammad Abd Allah bin Mani bin Ghallab al-Ghubayri al-Ruqi al-Utaybi. He was born in Riyadh on Friday after the congregational prayer on 17 Ramadan 1383 AH. He was raised in his family home in the al-Wizarat neighborhood of Riyadh. His father worked for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh alongside Umar bin Hasan Al al-Shaykh and died around 1390 AH when al-Ruqi was approximately six years old, after which he and his siblings were raised by their mother.
Al-Ruqi completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary education in Riyadh, graduating from the scientific track of secondary school in 1404 AH. In 1405 AH, he enrolled in the College of Sharia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.
Education and scholarly training
Al-Ruqi began his formal pursuit of Islamic religious sciences under scholars in 1401 AH. His principal teacher was the grand mufti Abd al-Aziz bin Baz, whose study circles he attended regularly for many years. He was noted among Ibn Baz's students for his strict attendance and comprehensive transcription of the shaykh's oral remarks, explanations, and gestures during lessons. Beginning in 1409 AH, Ibn Baz assigned him specialized research topics to resolve juristic and hadith questions raised during class. Al-Ruqi also studied under and transmitted scholarly benefits from Muhammad bin Salih al-Uthaymin.
Scholarly contribution
Al-Ruqi's scholarship focuses on hadith criticism, legal commentary, and the preservation of modern Hanbali scholarly legacy. He became a primary reference for contemporary researchers seeking the verified verdicts and oral teachings of Ibn Baz. Among his major contributions to this legacy is al-Hulal al-Ibriziyya min al-Ta'liqat al-Baziyya ala Sahih al-Bukhari, a multi-volume compilation recording Ibn Baz's marginal commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari. He also compiled Masa'il al-Imam Ibn Baz, gathering his teacher's legal determinations across various branches of jurisprudence. In hadith studies, he authored al-Tankit ala al-Muwatta, an analytical commentary on legal rulings and textual variants in Muwatta Malik.
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List of Works
al-Inbah ila Hukm Tarik al-Salat (Alerting to the Ruling on the One Who Abandons Prayer) is a legal treatise examining the status and theological-jurisprudential rulings regarding the abandonment of ritual prayer in Islamic law.
Fiqh Amal al-Yawm wa al-Layla (The Jurisprudence of Day and Night Practice) is a treatise on devotional jurisprudence and daily Islamic practice. It serves as an accessible practical manual outlining the specific devotional duties, recommended acts, and legal rulings incumbent upon or recommended for a Muslim across the hours of the day and night.
al-Tankit ala al-Muwatta (Critical Annotations on al-Muwatta) is a hadith and jurisprudential commentary focusing on elucidating legal rulings, textual variants, and narrators across the sections dedicated to acts of worship (al-Ibadat) in Malik ibn Anas's foundational compilation Muwatta Malik.
al-Lubab: Sharh Fusul al-Adab is a commentary on Islamic manners and etiquette, explaining the classical treatise Fusul al-Adab by the Hanbali scholar Abu al-Wafa Ibn Aqil.
Nitaj al-Fikr fi Ahkam al-Dhikr (The Fruit of Thought on the Rulings of Remembrance) is a legal and devotional treatise devoted to establishing the legal rulings, principles, and parameters governing the remembrance of God (dhikr).
Sharh Kitab al-Hajj min Bulugh al-Maram is a legal and hadith commentary on the pilgrimage section of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's hadith collection Bulugh al-Maram min Adillat al-Ahkam. Originating from spoken lessons, the work serves as an intermediate-length commentary combining hadith-critical analysis and legal rulings surrounding pilgrimage rites.
Sharh Kitab al-Sawm min Sahih al-Bukhari is a hadith and legal commentary expounding the chapter on fasting from Imam al-Bukhari's hadith collection Sahih al-Bukhari. Structured around the chapters and individual hadiths of Kitab al-Sawm, it combines textual and narrative criticism, comparative arrangement analysis, and juristic derivations of legal rulings.
Lubb al-Lubab: Mukhtasar Sharh Fusul al-Adab is a commentary on Fusul al-Adab, the treatise on Islamic manners and conduct authored by the Hanbali scholar Abu al-Wafa Ibn Aqil. It elucidates obscure expressions, explores fine legal details, and follows the source treatise's sequence to provide analysis of individual legal rulings, hadith proofs, and practical ethics.
Nafh al-Abir is a multi-volume collection of hadith and legal research papers consisting of independent research monographs. The studies investigate chains of transmission, biographical narrator evaluation, and comparative legal analysis across a variety of jurisprudential and hadith topics.