Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani

Life

Al-Marghanini performed the Hajj and visited Medina in the year 544 AH. He was thought to have died on the 14th of Dhu'l-Hijjah in the year 593 AH although one report indicated his year of death as 596 AH. He was buried in Samarqand.

Works

Al-Marghinani works (some extant and others known only from literary references) include:

• Nashr al-madhhab
• Kitab manasik al-hajj
• Kitab fi-l-fara'id (also known as Fara'id al-‘Uthmani)
• Kitab al-tajnis wa-l-mazid (collection of fatwas)
• Mukhtarat al-nawazil (collection of fatwas, also known as Mukhtarat majmu` al-nawazil and Mukhtar al-fatawa)
• Mazid fi furu‘ al-hanafiyya
• A commentary on al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-kabir
• Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi (his principle work, based on al-Quduri's Mukhtasar and al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-saghir)
• Kifayat al-muntaha (unfinished 8-volume commentary on his own Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi )
• Al-Hidayah ("The Guidance"), a work on Hanafi law and an abridgement of his commentary on Muhammad al-Shaybani's al-Jami‘ al-Saghir.

Teachers

Al-Marghinani's most important teachers were:

• Najm al-din Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi, author of al-‘Aqa’id al-Nasafiyyah fi al-Tauhid;
• Sadr al-Shahid Husam al-Din Umar bin Abd al-Aziz, the commentator of Adab al-Qadi, the most popular book of Imam Khassaf which contains the Islamic Legal and Judicial System.

References

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5. ({{langx. ar. برهان الدين المرغيناني) (1135-1197) was an [[Islamic scholar]] of the [[Hanafi]] school of jurisprudence. He was born to an Arab family whose lineage goes back to Caliph [[Abu Bakr]] al-Siddiq. He was born in [[Margilan. Marghinan]] near [[Fergana. Farghana]] (in present day Uzbekistan). He died in 1197 (593 AH).[[Imran Khan Nyazee. Dr Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee]] (trans.) Al-Hidayah: A classical manual of Hanafi Law Laws (Bristol) 2006
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