al-Iqna li-Ibn al-Mundhir
- Author died
- 319 AH
- Editions
- Dr. 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Jibrin
al-Iqna (Arabic: الإقناع) is a concise work of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Naysaburi (d. 318 AH / 930 CE; alternatively 319 AH / 931 CE) . It forms part of the author's broader corpus of legal compositions addressing matters of consensus and scholarly divergence .
Method and Content
Ibn al-Mundhir noted within the book that al-Iqna was an abridgment of another work of his without naming that original text, though researchers consider it to be an abridgment of his larger comparative work, al-Ishraf ala Madhahib al-Ulama . Although the bibliographer Haji Khalifa recorded in Kashf al-Zunun that the work contains rulings in substantive law (furu') stripped of supporting proofs, examination of surviving copies demonstrates that it is a concise legal text substantiated by evidence from the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and points of scholarly consensus (ijma') known to the author . In the course of the text, Ibn al-Mundhir makes cross-references to other writings of his, including his works Mukhtasar al-Salat and Ahkam Tarik al-Salat .
Transmission and Manuscripts
Scholars traveled to Mecca to hear and transmit al-Iqna directly from Ibn al-Mundhir. Among those who studied it with him in Mecca and received his certification (ijazah) was the Andalusian scholar Sa'id ibn 'Uthman ibn 'Abd al-Malik al-Andalusi, while 'Abd al-Barr ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Mukhariq likewise met him and transmitted the work on his authority .
A manuscript of al-Iqna is preserved in the library of al-Qarawiyyin (MS 1167), consisting of 114 folios and dated to 625 AH .
Editions
The work has been published in modern scholarly editions:
- Edited by 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Jibrin, first published in Riyadh in 1408 AH / 1987–1988 CE, with a third edition released by Maktabat al-Rushd in 1418 AH / 1997–1998 CE .
- Edited by Muhammad Hasan Isma'il, published by Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah in Beirut in 1418 AH / 1997 CE .
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