al-Durra al-Sunniya Manzuma fi Ilm al-Faraid
- Author died
- 1430 AH
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al-Durra al-Sunniya Manzuma fi Ilm al-Faraid (The Radiant Pearl: A Versification on the Science of Inheritance Shares) is a didactic poem on Islamic inheritance law (ilm al-fara'id) composed by the Algerian Maliki scholar Muhammad Bay Balalam (d. 1430 AH / 2009 CE).
Author and Context
The author, Muhammad Bay ibn Muhammad Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Alim al-Fulani, was an educator, imam, and scholar based in Aoulef in the Wilayah of Adrar, southern Algeria . He founded an educational institute dedicated to memorization of the Quran and instruction in various Islamic disciplines, authoring dozens of treatises and commentaries across jurisprudence, legal theory, Quranic sciences, and inheritance .
Subject and Place in the Author's Works
The text is composed in poetic verse (manẓūma) to facilitate memorization and instructional delivery of the legal rules governing estate division, primary heirs, prescribed shares, and residuary entitlements according to the Maliki school of law. The poem forms part of the author's broader contributions to the literature of inheritance (al-mawārīth and al-farāʾiḍ), alongside his other specialized commentaries in the field, including Fawākih al-Kharīf Sharḥ Bughyat al-Sharīf fī ʿIlm al-Farāʾiḍ al-Munīf and Markab al-Khāʾiḍ Sharḥ ʿalā al-Nayl al-Fāʾiḍ .
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