| Book (School) | Author | Verification | |---------------|--------|--------------| | Hedaya (Hanafi) | Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197) | Taught in Ottoman madrasas for 600 years. Verified by Mufti Muhammad Abd al-Hayy al-Laknawi (d. 1886). | | Reliance of the Traveller (Shafi’i) | Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 1368) | English translation and verification by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller (ijazah from Al-Azhar). Approved by Al-Azhar as The Shafi’i manual (1991). | | Al-Mughni (Hanbali) | Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi (d. 1223) | Verified by Dr. Abdullah al-Turki (critical edition, Dar Alam al-Kutub). |
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One of the earliest written collections of Hadith and legal rulings. It reflects the "living tradition" of the people of Medina, where the Prophet lived and died. Kitab al-Umm Author: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767–820 CE). Approved by Al-Azhar as The Shafi’i manual (1991)