al-Tajrid lil-Quduri
- Author died
- 428 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Salām
al-Tajrid (The Stripping/Abstract) is a classical manual of comparative Islamic jurisprudence (khilaf) composed by the Iraqi Hanafi jurist Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Quduri (362–428 AH / 972–1037 CE) . The work is devoted to setting out and evaluating the points of legal disagreement between Imam Abu Hanifa and his companions on the one hand and Imam al-Shafi'i on the other .
Composition and Scope
Al-Quduri began dictating the book in 405 AH (1014/1015 CE) . It was arranged across seven tomes (asfar) and opens with the invocation: "O Allah, protect us from error" (Allahumma i'simna min al-zalal) .
The author designed the work to isolate the specific rulings in which al-Shafi'i diverged from the Hanafi school, formulating the issues in concise prose (ijaz al-alfaz) while adducing comparative legal weighting (tarjih) so that both novice and intermediate students of jurisprudence could follow and comprehend the underlying legal reasoning .
Supplements and Abridgments
The book generated scholarly engagement among later jurists:
- Continuation: Abu Bakr Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Sarakhsi (d. 436 AH / 1044 CE; also reported as 439 AH) authored a supplement titled Takmilat al-Tajrid (Completion of al-Tajrid) .
- Abridgment: Jamal al-Din Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Qunawi (known as Ibn al-Siraj, d. 770 AH / 1368 CE) summarized the work in four volumes under the title al-Tafrid fi Mukhtasar al-Tajrid (The Singling Out in Abridging al-Tajrid) .
Modern Editions
Al-Tajrid has been edited by the Center for Jurisprudential and Economic Studies under the direction of Muhammad Ahmad Siraj and Ali Gomaa, and published in Cairo by Dar al-Salam .
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