al-Fawaid al-Fiqhiyya - within "Athar al-Muallimi
- Author died
- 1386 AH
- Editions
- Dār ‘Ālam al-Fawā’id lil-Nashr wal-Tawzī‘
al-Fawaid al-Fiqhiyya (Juristic Benefits) is a compilation of legal notes, critical remarks, and independent deductions by the Yemeni scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Muallimi al-Yamani (1313–1386 AH / 1896–1966 CE; also reported as born in 1312 AH) . It forms a specialized section within Fawaid al-Majami (vol. 24 of Athar al-Shaykh al-Allama Abd al-Rahman ibn Yahya al-Muallimi al-Yamani), published by Dar Alam al-Fawaid .
Origin and Composition
The material comprising the text was not written by al-Muallimi as a standalone monograph; rather, it represents personal entries preserved across his private notebooks and scrapbooks (kunnashat) . Al-Muallimi diligently recorded his thoughts, scholarly deductions, critical marginalia (ta'aqqubat), and summaries while reading diverse legal works throughout his travels and residences spanning roughly fifty years across Yemen, Asir, Indonesia, India, and Mecca .
Editorial Structure and Scope
When preparing the complete works project (Athar al-Muallimi), the editors surveyed al-Muallimi's extant notebooks and uncataloged papers held in the library of the Grand Mosque in Mecca . They separated verbatim source transcriptions from passages containing his original insights, corrections, and commentaries . These original entries were then organized thematically into seven distinct fields: exegesis (al-fawaid al-tafsiriyya), creed (al-fawaid al-iqdiyya), hadith (al-fawaid al-hadithiyya), jurisprudence (al-fawaid al-fiqhiyya), legal theory (al-fawaid al-usuliyya), linguistics (al-fawaid al-lughawiyya), and miscellaneous notes (al-fawaid al-mutafarriqa) .
Within al-Fawaid al-Fiqhiyya, the editorial team arranged al-Muallimi's dispersed rulings and deductions according to standard fiqh chapter headings, beginning with purification (tahara) and prayer (salah) .
Editorial Transmission
The text was edited under the supervision of Ali ibn Muhammad al-Umran, Nabil ibn Nassar al-Sindi, and Muhammad Ajmal al-Islahi . The transcribers encountered considerable difficulty deciphering al-Muallimi's manuscripts due to his swift handwriting, frequent omission of diacritical pointing, and extensive deletions and marginal insertions .
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