Muhammad ‘Ala’ al-Din b. Muhammad Amin b. ‘Umar ‘Abidin al-Husayni al-Hanafi al-Khalwati (1244 – 1306 AH) By: Shaykh ‘Abd al-Latif al-Farfur (A‘lam Dimashq — edited with slight additions) Muhammad ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Abidin, son of al-Sayyid Muhammad Amin, author of the …
Simply put, fiqh is the term assigned by the jurists (fuqaha) to refer to the rulings associated with various human actions. These rulings are primarily derived from the central sources of law, namely, the Qur’an, the Sunna, Scholarly Consensus (ijma‘) …