Study of the manuscript "Tabyeen Al-Hidayah and Clarification of the Beginning"

Abstract

Drawing the path that leads to learning the investigation and commentary of Islamic manuscripts. May God Almighty make this in the balance of his good deeds and that it be a good beginning for reviving much of the Islamic heritage that is still in manuscript form. After all that I mentioned about the importance of jurisprudence in our daily lives, my studies were related to that. My share of Islamic knowledge was jurisprudence, and my share of jurisprudence was the Hanafi school of thought, and my share of that was the book (Tabyeen al-Hidayah wa Tawdih al-Bidayah by Sayyid Hafiz Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Sheikh Mustafa al-Kadousi (d. 1253 AH). The book (Tabyeen al-Hidayah wa Tawdih al-Bidayah) by al-Kadousi is of high scientific value. Its author made a great effort in writing it and collected the words of the scholars of the Hanafi school of thought in particular and the scholars of the other schools in general. Therefore, it was our duty not to waste this effort or neglect this treasure and to give it great attention to its investigation and commentary. This is what God has bestowed upon us with a group of students of studies. The author, may God have mercy on him, relied in explaining the text of al-Hidayah on a group of explanations of the Hanafi scholars, may God have mercy on them, especially the book (Nihayat al-Kifaya li-Dirayat al-Hidayah) by Taj al-Shari’ah Omar. Al-Mahboubi, Al-Binaya Sharh Al-Hidayah by Badr Al-Din Al-Ayni, Al-Nihayah Sharh Al-Hidayah by Al-Saghnaqi, Al-Inaya Sharh Al-Hidayah by Al-Babarti, and others. After this blessed study, I have concluded that whoever wants to learn a school of thought from the famous Islamic schools of thought, such as the four schools of thought or others, all he has to do is write a research paper or verify a manuscript on this school of thought, and through that learn the books of the school that were written about it, and then learn the scholars of this school of thought, their sayings and their fatwas.