al-Sharh al-Sawti li Zad al-Mustaqni - Ibn Uthaymin
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- al-Sharh al-Sawti li Zad al-Mustaqni - Ibn Uthaymin
al-Sharh al-Sawti li Zad al-Mustaqni is a comprehensive verbatim transcription of the recorded oral lectures delivered by Ibn Uthaymin (d. 1421 AH / 2001 CE) on Musa al-Hajjawi's Hanbali legal primer, Zad al-Mustaqni fi Ikhtisar al-Muqni .
Origin and Background
Ibn Uthaymin taught Zad al-Mustaqni in his regular study circles at the Grand Mosque in Unayzah, focusing on explaining its concise phraseology, clarifying its meanings, and determining the preponderant legal opinion (al-qawl al-rajih) supported by textual evidence or systematic legal reasoning . The lectures were recorded on cassette tapes and transcribed into notebooks by his students . While these recordings were later edited and abridged into the multi-volume print work al-Sharh al-Mumti' 'ala Zad al-Mustaqni by Sulayman ibn Abd Allah Aba al-Khayl and Khalid ibn Ali al-Mushayqih—and subsequently revised and edited by Ibn Uthaymin himself—the audio transcription preserves the entirety of the original spoken lectures verbatim .
Structure and Scope
The transcript brings together two distinct lecture cycles delivered by Ibn Uthaymin on the text:
- The First Commentary: A complete, unabridged exposition of Zad al-Mustaqni from beginning to end, spanning 299 audio files (also circulated across 295 audio cassette tapes) .
- The Second Commentary: A partial commentary covering approximately one-third of the text across 132 audio files, comprising chapters on the description of prayer, the rites of pilgrimage (al-manasik), sales and business transactions (al-buyu'), endowments and bequests (al-waqf wa-l-wasaya), marriage (al-nikah), divorce (al-talaq), sworn allegations and marital oaths (al-ila', al-zihar, and al-li'an), waiting periods and suckling (al-'idad and al-rada'), financial maintenance (al-nafaqat), bodily offenses and blood money (al-jinayat and al-diyat), prescribed penalties (al-hudud), dietary laws (al-at'imah), and portions of judicial procedures, oaths, and testimonies (al-ayman, al-qada', and al-shahadat) .
Distinctive Features and Content
The verbatim audio transcription contains substantial instructional material not included in the edited print edition of al-Sharh al-Mumti':
- Live Classroom Interactions: It documents the author's preliminary discussions and recitations with students prior to lessons, questions raised by students during and after each lecture, and his impromptu answers .
- Unabridged Legal Inquiries: It incorporates legal scenarios and subsidiary issues (furu') discussed during the oral delivery that were edited out of the revised printed commentary, helping clarify ambiguous points found in the printed text .
- Extensive Supplemental Excursus: Ibn Uthaymin frequently expanded upon the original primer by commenting on external texts, including passages from Mansur al-Bahuti's al-Rawd al-Murbi' (such as an entire section on safe conduct and truces in the chapter of jihad), explaining his own independent monographs (such as his treatise on the zakat of jewelry within the chapter of zakat), integrating the university syllabus notes (Mudhakkirat al-Jami'ah) into several legal chapters during the second series, and delivering topical lectures on the virtues and etiquettes of seeking religious knowledge during the chapter on estate division (al-fara'id) .
The complete transcription was prepared under the sponsorship of the Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'id and Brothers Endowment in conjunction with the Shaykh Ibn Uthaymin Chair for Islamic Studies, and published for electronic dissemination .
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