Nasir bin Mishri al-Ghamdi
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Nasir bin Mishri al-Ghamdi (full name: Nasir bin Muhammad bin Mishri al-Ghamdi) is a contemporary Saudi Islamic jurist and academic at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, known for his comparative jurisprudential research on ritual law .
Academic Career and Scholarship
Al-Ghamdi served as an associate professor in the Department of Judiciary and as vice dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Umm al-Qura University . In his academic capacity, he supervised graduate research in Islamic jurisprudence, including an academic edition of parts of al-Ibtihaj fi Sharh al-Minhaj by Taqi al-Din al-Subki (1427–1428 AH) .
His scholarly output includes Ahkam al-Ibadat al-Mutaratibah ala Tulu al-Fajr al-Thani (Rulings of Acts of Worship Contingent upon the Rising of the Second Dawn), completed in Rajab 1428 AH and published by Dar Ibn al-Jawzi . The treatise provides a comparative legal analysis distinguishing the false dawn from the true dawn, surveying the timing of prayers, fasting, ritual purifications, zakat al-fitr, and sacrificial slaughter, while addressing discrepancies observed in contemporary astronomical prayer timetables .
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Ahkam al-Ibadat al-Mutaratibah ala Tulu al-Fajr al-Thani is a specialized treatise in comparative Islamic jurisprudence addressing the legal rulings governing acts of worship whose timing begins or ends with the appearance of the true dawn. It brings together legal issues scattered across various chapters of Islamic jurisprudence, investigating the timings tied to the second dawn and distinguishing it from the false dawn through comparative analysis of major legal schools, classic foundational sources, and contemporary astronomical studies.