Khalid al-Mushayqih
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Khalid ibn Ali al-Mushayqih is a contemporary Saudi jurist and professor of Islamic jurisprudence based in al-Qassim.
Early life and education
He was born in Buraidah in the al-Qassim province of Saudi Arabia, and his full lineage is Khalid ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hammud al-Mushayqih. After finishing his primary education, he attended the Scientific Institute affiliated with Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University for his intermediate and secondary schooling. He then entered the College of Sharia in al-Qassim, graduating with distinction, after which he was appointed as a teaching assistant at the faculty.
Al-Mushayqih continued his higher education at the College of Sharia in Riyadh, earning a master's degree with distinction. He subsequently completed his doctoral studies at the Higher Judicial Institute, receiving his doctorate with first-class honors.
Teachers and scholarly career
Al-Mushayqih studied under several prominent scholars, becoming one of the closest students of Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin. His other teachers included Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ghudayyan, Abd al-Karim Iskandar, Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Qar'awi, Fahd ibn Muhammad al-Mushayqih, and Muhammad Sulayman al-Fawzan.
He was appointed as a professor at the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University's al-Qassim branch. In addition to his university duties, he delivered regular public teaching lessons across various legal disciplines and taught numerous students. In scholarly editing, al-Mushayqih collaborated with Sulayman Aba al-Khayl to edit, reference, and publish al-Uthaymin's jurisprudence commentary al-Sharh al-Mumti' 'ala Zad al-Mustaqni', and he later read the revised edition directly to the author. He also critically edited the book of prayer from Ibn Taymiyyah's legal commentary Sharh al-'Umdah.
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List of Works
al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Waqf wa al-Hibat wa al-Wasaya is a contemporary jurisprudence treatise focusing on the legal principles governing charitable trusts (waqf), gratuitous donations (hibat), and testamentary dispositions (wasaya). It systematically analyzes traditional jurisprudential rulings alongside contemporary applications, drawing from classical references across the major Islamic legal schools while integrating modern legal studies.
Sharh Risala Latifa Jami'a fi Usul al-Fiqh al-Muhimma is a contemporary commentary on Islamic jurisprudence principles (usul al-fiqh). The work explains Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di's introductory treatise of the same name, providing linguistic, theoretical, and practical expositions of foundational legal concepts, normative rulings, sources of law, and principles of legal deduction.
al-Mukhtasar fi al-Ankiha wa al-Atima wa al-Ayman wa al-Nudhur is an Islamic legal manual that serves as the third installment in the Mukhtasarat al-Fiqh series. It outlines key legal rulings across specific domains of Islamic jurisprudence, covering marriage and familial relations, dietary regulations, oaths, and vows using simplified phrasing supported by textual proofs.
al-Iqd al-Thamin fi Sharh Manzumat al-Shaykh Ibn Uthaymin is a contemporary legal commentary on Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin's didactic poem on legal theory and maxims. The work expounds upon the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, universal legal maxims, branch-specific juristic parameters, and juristic distinctions between parallel rulings contained in the base text.
Atayib al-Zahr Sharh Nawaqid al-Islam al-Ashr is a contemporary theological commentary on Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's treatise Nawaqid al-Islam. The work elucidates the ten major nullifiers of Islam, focusing on the preservation of monotheism (tawhid) and warnings against polytheism and apostasy.
Fiqh al-Nawazil fi al-Ibadat (Jurisprudence of Contemporary Issues in Acts of Worship) is a contemporary legal work that examines modern unprecedented matters (nawazil) pertaining to Islamic ritual obligations. It investigates newly arisen circumstances requiring legal rulings across acts of worship, deriving positions through legal analogical deduction grounded in the principles and statements of earlier classical jurists.
Al-Mukhtasar fi al-Jinayat wal-Hudud wal-Qada (The Summary on Felonies, Prescribed Penalties, and Judiciary) is an Islamic legal treatise that serves as the fourth installment in the Mukhtasarat al-Fiqh instructional series. It provides an abridged reference on criminal law, statutory penalties, and judicial procedures, grounding legal rulings directly in textual and deductive proofs from the Quran, Sunnah, consensus, analogical reasoning, and statements of the Companions.
Sharh Sifat al-Salah li Ibn al-Qayyim (Commentary on the Description of the Prayer by Ibn al-Qayyim) is a contemporary jurisprudence commentary on the concluding section of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Kitab al-Salah wa-Hukm Tarikiha. It details the Prophet Muhammad's manner of prayer from the opening takbir to the final taslim, explaining the legal rulings, conditions, integral pillars, and recommended acts of prayer through scriptural proofs and the views of early generations and major legal schools.
al-Mukhtasar fi Fiqh al-Ibadat (The Summary of the Jurisprudence of Acts of Worship) is a contemporary manual of Islamic ritual law that presents essential legal rulings governing purification, prayer, zakah, fasting, and pilgrimage. Structured in an accessible question-and-answer format, it draws from classical treatises across various legal schools to teach the basic requirements needed to ensure valid worship without lengthy evidential debates.
al-Ifada min Mal al-Yatim fi Uqud al-Muawadat wa al-Tabarruat (Deriving Benefit from the Property of the Orphan in Contracts of Exchange and Gratuitous Contracts) is a legal treatise published in 1424 AH (2004 CE). It examines the jurisprudence governing what a guardian and others are permitted to utilize from an orphan's wealth across commercial transactions of exchange, gratuitous contracts, and the payment of obligatory financial dues.