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al-Fusul fi'l Usul

al-Fusul fi’l Usul

£249.00 — or £50.00 / month for 5 months

الفصول في الأصول

In this class, students will undertake a reading of the chapters on the sunna from Imam Jassas al-Razi’s brilliant compendium on Hanafi Legal Philosophy, al-Fusul fi’l Usul. The methodology of the Hanafis in relation to deriving law from the sunna is often misunderstood, and this class seeks to remedy that by providing students with an in-depth reading of usul al-fiqh through the lens of a significant and authoritative, early Iraqi jurist. This reading will provide a nuanced insight into Imam Abu Hanifa’s standards for accepting reports from the early righteous community, and much more. *RECORDINGS ONLY*

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Description: This course provides a powerful illustration of why Hanafi students ought to study Usul al-Hadith acccording to the Hanafi Maddhab. The course examines the epistemological foundations of the Hanafi method of Hadith authentication as discussed in the work of Imam Abu Bakr al-Jassas: al-Fusul fi’l Usul. Through a deep reading of thirteen chapters on Hadith authentication and criticism from al-Fusul fi’l Usul, students will grasp how Usul al-Fiqh and Usul al-Hadith interwine in the Hanafi Madhhab. The course will explore the Hanafi criteria of Hadith authentication and establishing the accuracy of narrators, the Hanafi classification of narrations and narrators, and will also trace the different perspectives of early Hanafi scholars, namely `Isa ibn Aban, al-Karkhi, and al-Jassas, on contradictory narrations and contradiction of narrations with Qiyas and Qawa`id. Recordings will be available on the class forum. Please note that this course has now ended and registration provides you with access to the recordings and resources.

Instructor: Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary

Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history, a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī, a Senior Instructor at SeekersGuidance, and a teacher of Theology and Logic at Madina Institute. Shaykh Ahmed is also a published editor and author. His forthcoming work is a compendium of four edited and annotated treatises on the principles and foundations of the Hanafi Madhhab, titled: “al-Fawa`id al-Saniyya fi Madhhab al-Hanafiyya,” revised and forwarded by Shaykh Muhammad Jamal al-Din Hashim, the Shaykh of Hanafi Fiqh at al-Azhar Mosque, and Shaykh Yahya bin Muhammad al-Mulla, the Shaykh of Hanafi School in al-Ahsa’.

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Length of course: 24 Lessons / ~ 60 Hours

Prerequisites: Readings in Hanafi Usul al-Fiqh and Non-Hanafi Usul al-Hadith

Level: Intermediate

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Topics: Why study Usul al-Hadith according to the Hanafi Madhhab? Is this a valid approach?
The Classification of Narrations
Between Mutawatir and Ahaad.
The conditions for accepting an Ahaad narration.
The authenticity of a Mursal narration.
On contradictory narrations.
On concealed narrations.
A narrator acting in opposition to what he narrated.
Narrating Hadith by meaning.

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