Ibn Mulla Farrukh

Ibn Mulla Farrukh (996–1062 AH / 1587–1652 CE) was a Meccan Hanafi jurist and mufti, best known for his legal treatise al-Qawl al-sadid fi baʿd masaʾil al-ijtihad wa-l-taqlid ("The Sound Discourse on Certain Issues of Independent Legal Reasoning and Following Authority") Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…+1.

Background and education

His full name was Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Mulla Farrukh ibn Abd al-Muhsin ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Murawi, titled Abd al-Azim al-Makki Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…. His ancestral nisba al-Murawi traces back to Morea (Mūra) in the Ottoman lands of Rum Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…. He was born in Mecca in 996 AH / 1587 CE and was raised there Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar….

He pursued Islamic jurisprudence and religious disciplines under several prominent Meccan scholars, most notably Ali al-Qari, Ahmad ibn Allan, and the Maliki scholar Khalid al-Makki al-Ja'fari Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar….

Career and scholarship

Ibn Mulla Farrukh served as a Hanafi mufti in Mecca and was regarded as an active practicing scholar Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…+1. His primary legal work, al-Qawl al-sadid fi baʿd masaʾil al-ijtihad wa-l-taqlid, which he completed in 1052 AH (1642 CE), addressed foundational questions of legal theory (usul al-fiqh), focusing on the limits of following authority (taqlid), the nature of independent legal reasoning (ijtihad), and cross-school congregational prayer al-Alam lil-Zirikli. He also authored a treatise on devotional practice titled Risalah fi salat al-tasbih Khizanat al-Turath - Fihr….

Death

Ibn Mulla Farrukh died in Mecca on the night of Sunday, 26 Rabi' al-Awwal 1062 AH (March 1652 CE), and was buried in the al-Ma'lah cemetery Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…. Other biographical records list his death year as 1061 AH, while some bibliographical sources note only that he lived after 1052 AH based on the date of his treatise Tabaqat al-Qari al-Athmar…+1.