''Bulūgh al-Marām min Adillat al-Aḥkām'', () translation: ''Attainment of the Objective According to Evidences of the Ordinances'' by al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (1372 – 1448) is a collection of

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

pertaining specifically to Shāfiʿī

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values ...

. This genre is referred to in

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as ''Aḥādīth al-Aḥkam''.

About

''Bulūgh al-Marām'' contains a total of 1358 hadiths. At the end of each

narrated in ''Bulūgh al-Marām'', al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajar mentions who collected that hadith originally. ''Bulūgh al-Marām'' includes

drawn from numerous primary sources such as '' Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī'', ''

Sahih Muslim () is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj () in the format, the work is valued by Sunnis, alongside , as the most important source for Islamic religion after the Q ...

'', '' Sunan Abu Dawud'', '' Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī'', '' Sunan al-Nasāʾī'', '' Sunan ibn Mājah'', ''

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' () is a collection of musnad hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. AH 241/AD 855) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed. Description Musnad Ahmad, also known as Al-Musnad , is on ...

'' and more. It holds the unique distinction that all the hadith compiled in the book have been the foundation for Shāfiʿī

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rulings. In addition to mentioning the origins of each of the hadith in ''Bulūgh al-Marām'', Ibn Ḥajar also included a comparison between the versions of a hadith that came from different sources. Because of its unique qualities, it still remains a widely used collection of hadith regardless of the school of thought.

The book is divided into 16 chapters: # The Book of Purification # The Book of Prayer # The Book of Funerals # The Book of Zakat # The Book of Fasting # The Book of Hajj # The Book of Business Transactions # The Book of Marriage # The Book of Jinayat # The Book of Hudud # The Book of Jihad # The Book of Foods # The Book of Oaths and Vows # The Book of Judgement # The Book of Emancipation # The Comprehensive Book

Explanations

* ''al-Badr al-Tamām'' by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Maghribī * ''Subul al-Salām'' by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Amīr al-Ṣanʿānī, who abridged ''al-Badr al-Tamām''

Translation

* ''Bulugh Al-Maram: Attainment of the Objective According to Evidence of the Ordinances'', Dar-us-Salam; 1st edition (1996),

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: B000FJJURU * Kinyarwanda translation: ''Kugera ku ntego : hashingiwe kuri gihamya z'amategeko y'idini ya Islam : Bulugh al maram : min adilatil ah'kam'', Kigali: Maktabat al-qalam; (2019)

Other books of ''Aḥādīth al-aḥkām''

*'' Tahdhib al-Athar'' by

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim ulama, scholar, polymath, Islamic history, historian, tafsir, exegete, faqīh, juris ...

*'' Sunan al-Wusta'' by Ahmad Bayhaqi *'' Sunan al-Kubra'' by Ahmad Bayhaqi *''‘Umdah al-ahkam'' by

Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi Abd al-Ghani ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi (; 11461203) was a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent hadith master. He was born in 1146 CE (541 AH) in the village of Jummail in Palestine. He studied with scholars in Damascus; many of whom w ...

*''Al-Muntaqa'' by Majd ibn Taymiyah explained by Muhammad ash-Shawkani in ''Nayl al-Awtar Sharh Muntaqa al-Akhbar''

Publications

*'' Bulugh Al-Maram'': Attainment of the Objective According to Evidence of the Ordinances

References

External links

Bulugh al-Maram (partial) online at Sunnah.com
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