Sharh Muntaha al-Iradat lil-Buhuti = Daqaiq Uli al-Nuha
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- 1051 AH
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Daqaiq Uli al-Nuha li-Sharh al-Muntaha (Arabic: دقائق أولي النهى لشرح المنتهى), commonly known as Sharh Muntaha al-Iradat (شرح منتهى الإرادات), is a legal commentary on Hanbali jurisprudence authored by the Egyptian scholar Mansur ibn Yunus al-Bahuti (1000–1051 AH / 1591–1641 CE) . It serves as an explanatory commentary on Muntaha al-Iradat, a core manual of late Hanbali doctrine composed by Ibn al-Najjar al-Futuhi (d. 972 AH / 1564 CE) by synthesizing Ibn Qudamah's al-Muqni‘ and Ali ibn Sulayman al-Mardawi's al-Tanqih al-Mushbi‘ .
Background and Composition
The author of the base text, Ibn al-Najjar, had originally written his own extensive commentary on Muntaha al-Iradat, titled Ma‘unat Uli al-Nuha . Al-Bahuti noted in his preface that although Ibn al-Najjar's text was valuable, his commentary was excessively long in certain passages while leaving other rulings without evidence or rationale; in response to requests from colleagues, al-Bahuti composed a more concise commentary designed to facilitate study .
According to Ibn Bishr, al-Bahuti completed the work in 1049 AH (1639–1640 CE), and it is reported to be the last work he authored . His nephew and student, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khalwati (d. 1088 AH / 1677 CE), was reading the commentary under al-Bahuti's instruction until the final subsection of the chapter on legal interdiction (al-hajr), where the reading halted due to al-Bahuti falling ill on Sunday, 5 Rabi‘ al-Thani 1051 AH, before dying on Friday, 10 Rabi‘ al-Thani 1051 AH .
Sources and Methodology
In compiling Daqaiq Uli al-Nuha, al-Bahuti drew primarily from Ibn al-Najjar's commentary Ma‘unat Uli al-Nuha, his own commentary on Musa ibn Ahmad al-Hajjawi's al-Iqna‘ titled Kashshaf al-Qina‘, and al-Sharh al-Kabir by Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Umar ibn Qudamah (d. 682 AH / 1283 CE) . He also drew upon and referenced his own earlier gloss on the base text, Irshad Uli al-Nuha li-Daqaiq al-Muntaha, which he had completed on 19 Safar 1036 AH (1626 CE) .
A central methodological feature of the work is its critical verification of rulings, particularly its identification and clarification of substantive points where Muntaha al-Iradat diverges from al-Iqna‘ .
Standing and Supercommentaries
Daqaiq Uli al-Nuha became the most widely studied and authoritative commentary on Muntaha al-Iradat, serving alongside Kashshaf al-Qina‘ as a primary relied-upon reference for legal rulings and judicial practice within the late Hanbali school and in the courts of Saudi Arabia .
Numerous scholars composed supercommentaries and glosses (hawashi) on the work, including:
- Abd al-Wahhab ibn Fayruz al-Ahsa'i (d. 1205 AH / 1790 CE) .
- Sulayman ibn Ibrahim al-Faddaghi (13th century AH), titled Tadhkirat al-Talib li-Kashf al-Masa'il al-Ghara'ib .
- Ghannam ibn Muhammad ibn Ghannam al-Najdi (d. 1237 AH / 1821–1822 CE) .
- Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman Aba Butayn (d. 1282 AH / 1865 CE), which was extracted by his grandson Abd al-Rahman ibn Mani‘ (d. 1287 AH / 1870–1871 CE) .
- Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Humayd (d. 1295 AH / 1878 CE), which reached the chapter on manumission (al-‘itq) .
- Ibn Badran (d. 1346 AH / 1927 CE), who taught the text in Douma and wrote a gloss reaching the chapter on forward sales (bab al-salam) .
- Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi, titled Fath Mawla al-Nuha li-Dibajat Sharh al-Muntaha, focusing on the work's preface .
Publication History
The commentary was published early in Egypt at al-Matba‘a al-Amira al-Sharafiyya in 1319 AH (1901–1902 CE) on the margins of Kashshaf al-Qina‘ across four parts bound in three volumes, and later issued by Matba‘at Ansar al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah in 1366 AH (1947 CE) in three volumes . It was also edited across eight academic dissertations (one doctoral and seven master's theses) at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca .
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