Mahmud Abd al-Latif Uwayda
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Mahmud Abd al-Latif Uwayda is a contemporary Islamic author and jurist, known for his legal compendia on Islamic acts of worship, including al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Salat ("The Compendium of the Rulings of Prayer") and al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Siyam ("The Compendium of the Rulings of Fasting") .
Biography and Legal Views
His full name is Abu Iyas Mahmud ibn Abd al-Latif ibn Mahmud Uwayda . His legal treatises have been published in Amman, Jordan, where he issued al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Salat under an open distribution waiver, permitting anyone to reprint and disseminate it on the condition that no words were altered, added, or deleted .
In comparative studies on modern medical jurisprudence, his rulings regarding the nullifiers of fasting are cited alongside those of other contemporary scholars . He maintained that blood transfusions do not break the fast, arguing that blood is not nourishment in the sense of food and drink and does not enter through a normal bodily orifice . In contrast, he held that substances administered rectally break the fast because they enter an open passage and reach the internal cavity , and concluded that asthma inhalers invalidate the fast because matter enters and settles in the cavity voluntarily .
Controversy and Critique
Uwayda also authored Haml al-Da'wah al-Islamiyyah: Wajibat wa-Sifat ("Carrying the Islamic Call: Obligations and Characteristics"), published by Dar al-Umma as a publication of Hizb al-Tahrir . In the work, he included a chapter on the Victorious Group (al-Ta'ifa al-Zahira), arguing that hadiths describing this praised group applied specifically to Hizb al-Tahrir . This position drew sharp censure from the scholar Husam al-Din Afana, who wrote a targeted refutation criticizing Uwayda's textual interpretations as partisan distortions of the Sunnah .
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al-Jamiʿ li-Ahkam al-Salat (The Compendium of the Rulings of Prayer) is a legal treatise dedicated to the jurisprudence and rulings governing Islamic prayer (salat). The work approaches its subject through direct reliance on textual evidence, grounding legal derivations in the Quran and the Sunnah.
al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Ṣiyām (The Comprehensive Guide to the Rulings of Fasting) is a work of Islamic jurisprudence dedicated to the legal rulings of fasting. Structured to revive direct engagement with primary scriptural texts, it presents a practical model for writing jurisprudence based on textual evidence.