Fiqh al-Siyam wal-Hajj min Dalil al-Talib
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Fiqh al-Siyam wal-Hajj min Dalil al-Talib (Arabic: فقه الصيام والحج من دليل الطالب) is a contemporary Hanbali jurisprudence work by Hamad al-Hamad (Hamad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Hamad), consisting of transcribed legal lectures explaining the chapters of fasting (siyam) and pilgrimage (hajj) from the classical manual Dalil al-Talib li-Nayl al-Matalib .
Origin and Structure
The work originated as an audio lecture series delivered by al-Hamad and was subsequently transcribed and published by the Islamweb website (al-Shabakah al-Islamiyyah) . The text is arranged into twenty-one lessons, with each numbered part corresponding to an individual lecture .
Content and Methodology
The work provides a detailed pedagogical commentary on the relevant chapters of Dalil al-Talib, a concise manual of Hanbali jurisprudence authored by Mar'i ibn Yusuf al-Karmi (d. 1033 AH) . In the commentary, al-Hamad breaks down the core legal rulings, their statutory evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah, and the positions of both the Hanbali school and the broader majority of jurists (jumhur) .
In the section on fasting, the commentary addresses:
- The status and conditions of obligatoriness and validity for fasting .
- Moon-sighting rules for establishing the start of Ramadan, including the debate over whether sighting the crescent in one country binds other regions, contrasting the opinion of the majority with the view of Ishaq ibn Rahawayh and the harmonizing position of Ibn Taymiyyah regarding shared moon horizons (matali') .
- The ruling on fasting the Day of Doubt (yawm al-shakk), evaluating the standard Hanbali position of precautionary fasting against the majority's view and citing the prohibition favored by figures such as Abu al-Khattab, Ibn Aqil, and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab .
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