Hashiyat al-Labdi ala Nayl al-Maarib
- Author died
- 1319 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Bashā’ir al-Islāmiyyah lil-Ṭibā‘ah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī‘
Hashiyat al-Labdi ala Nayl al-Maarib (The Gloss of al-Lubdi upon The Attainment of Objectives) is a supercommentary on Hanbali school jurisprudence by the Palestinian scholar Abd al-Ghani ibn Yasin al-Lubdi (1262–1319 AH / 1846–1902 CE) . The work annotates Nayl al-Maarib, a commentary by Abd al-Qadir ibn Umar al-Taghlibi (d. 1135 AH / 1723 CE) on Mar'i ibn Yusuf al-Karmi's (d. 1033 AH / 1624 CE) primer Dalil al-Talib li-Nayl al-Matalib .
Composition and Compilation
Al-Lubdi composed the annotations directly on the margins of a printed copy of the Bulaq edition of Nayl al-Maarib, which had been issued in Egypt in 1288 AH (1871–1872 CE) . Internal evidence indicates that he commenced writing the gloss after that publication date, concluding it with a colophon affirming that he had completed the annotations on the margins of the volume . While widely recognized under the short title Hashiyat al-Labdi, a manuscript copy in Riyadh carries the title Taysir al-Matalib ila Fahm wa-Tahqiq Nayl al-Maarib .
Following al-Lubdi's death in Mecca in 1319 AH (though Muhammad Jamil al-Shatti reported 1317 AH), his son Mahmud ibn Abd al-Ghani al-Lubdi traveled to the Hejaz, recovered his father's books to their home village of Kafr al-Labad, and extracted (tajrid) the gloss into a standalone work, completing the compilation in 1321 AH . During this transcription, Mahmud interpolated occasional analytical remarks of his own; in the transmitted text, comments introduced by aqulu ("I say") represent Mahmud's contributions, whereas those prefaced by qultu belong to Abd al-Ghani .
Scope, Method, and Sources
The supercommentary was written to refine Nayl al-Maarib, clarify its ambiguous passages, and resolve legal inaccuracies found in both al-Taghlibi's commentary and al-Karmi's original base text (Dalil al-Talib) . In addition to traditional Hanbali jurisprudence, al-Lubdi incorporated rulings concerning specific social conditions and customary practices ('urf) prevalent in the rural villages and districts of Nablus, applying the school's principles to contemporary local questions .
Al-Lubdi drew on core reference texts of the Hanbali school, frequently citing authoritative late works such as al-Furu', al-Insaf, al-Tanqih, Muntaha al-Iradat and its commentaries by Ibn al-Najjar al-Futuhi and Mansur al-Bahuti, Musa al-Hajjawi's al-Iqna', and Ghayat al-Muntaha alongside its commentaries by Mustafa al-Ruhaybani and Isma'il al-Jira'i, as well as Ahmad ibn Awad's gloss on Dalil al-Talib . He also utilized classical foundational references, including Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Khiraqi's Mukhtasar and its commentaries, Ibn Qudamah's al-Muqni' and al-Kafi, and legal writings by al-Qadi Abu Ya'la, Abu al-Khattab, and Ibn Aqil .
Reception and Editions
While the late Hanbali scholar Abd al-Qadir ibn Badran evaluated al-Taghlibi's Nayl al-Maarib as unrefined and insufficient in fulfilling the intent of the base text, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Mani' commended al-Lubdi's gloss as an essential work that successfully refined and corrected al-Taghlibi's commentary . Ahmad al-Qu'aymi noted that despite minor inadvertencies, the gloss follows the critical method of earlier annotators like al-Khalwati and remains indispensable for students studying Nayl al-Maarib .
The text was edited from two manuscript copies by Muhammad Sulayman al-Ashqar and published in a single volume by Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah in Beirut in 1419 AH (1999 CE) .
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