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Al-Wasiyyah of Imam Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi

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Imam Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi

Paperback, 70 pages

9780954738075

BIOGRAPHY OF IBN QUDAMA
Ibn Qudama is Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Qudama, Abu Muhammad Muwaffaq al-Din al-Jama ili al-Maqdisi, born in Jama 'il, Palestine, in 541/1146. A Hanbali scholar and Imam, he was educated in Damascus, and was the author of the nine-volume al-Mughni [The enricher] in Hanbali jurisprudence as well as other works in fundamentals of Sacred Law, tenets of faith, geneology, biography, and Quranic exegesis. He travelled to Baghdad in AH 561 and lived there four years before returning to Damascus, where he died in 620/1223.

This book is a distillation of the wisdom gained after years of study of sacred texts from the Islamic tradition. The author, Muwaffaq al-Din al-Maqdisi, is one of the foremost scholars in the Hanbali school, and this concise and inspiring work sums up the realities of this world and the next, gathered in kernels of advice to his fellow believers.