al-Adilla al-Radiyya li-Matn al-Durar al-Bahiyya fi al-Masail al-Fiqhiyya
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- 1438 AH
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al-Adilla al-Radiyya li-Matn al-Durar al-Bahiyya fi al-Masaʾil al-Fiqhiyya (The Satisfying Evidences for the Text of the Splendid Pearls in Jurisprudential Matters) is a single-volume legal commentary authored by Abu Musʿab Muhammad Subhi ibn Hasan Hallaq (d. 1438 AH / 2017 CE) . The work extracts and documents the textual scriptural proofs—from the Quran and the Sunnah—for the legal positions outlined in al-Durar al-Bahiyya, a concise non-madhhab-based jurisprudence primer compiled by Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Shawkani (d. 1250 AH / 1834 CE) .
Background and Purpose
Hallaq compiled the book after teaching al-Shawkani's primer to first- and second-year male and female teacher-training classes at the Scientific Institute in Sanaa . Al-Shawkani's original text presented rulings across acts of worship, financial transactions, personal status, and other legal topics based on sound evidence rather than strict adherence to a particular school of jurisprudence . Because the original primer was stripped of explicit textual proofs, Hallaq authored al-Adilla al-Radiyya to provide beginners and students with direct access to the scriptural foundations supporting each ruling . The author completed the original draft on 4 Muharram 1410 AH (6 August 1989 CE) .
Methodology and Structure
The layout places the fully vocalized base text of al-Durar al-Bahiyya across the upper portion of each page, organized systematically into books and thematic chapters, while Hallaq's annotations and references appear in numbered footnotes below . His method includes:
- Hadith documentation (takhrij): To keep the work concise, he restricts hadith citations to Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim whenever the report is found in both or either of them . If absent from both, he restricts his citation to the four Sunan collections (Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah) . When a ruling relies on a weak hadith, he cites only its opening phrase, its narrator, and its grading to warn the reader against relying on it, referring readers seeking extended analysis to his other works, such as Irshad al-Ummah or his editions of al-Rawda al-Nadiyya and al-Darari al-Mudiyya .
- Quranic citations: He provides the surah name and verse number for all cited verses .
- Linguistic and conceptual explanations: He glosses difficult vocabulary (gharib) within the evidence to clarify the derivation of rulings, and occasionally defines terms from the base text where needed .
Publication History and Reception
The book carries an introduction by Dr. Abd al-Wahhab ibn Lutf al-Daylami, lecturer in Quranic sciences at Sanaa University, dated 10 Shaʿban 1410 AH (7 March 1990 CE), who commended the work for simplifying legal evidence for students . The book came to be adopted in religious institutes and pedagogical curricula .
The initial printing contained around 200 typographical errors; the cover misprinted the title as al-Adilla al-Rasina and erroneously attributed the commentary to al-Shawkani himself . An unauthorized facsimile edition was subsequently issued in Beirut by Dar al-Nada, which corrected the cover title but left the internal errors intact . Dar al-Fikr in Beirut later acquired the publishing rights and published an authorized, corrected third edition, prefaced by the author on 4 Safar 1414 AH (23 July 1993 CE), and the work subsequently reached at least six editions .
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