Ibn Malak's Resources in "Sharh Al-Wiqaya": The books of Purity and Prayer

Abstract

This research aims to identify the scholar Abdul Lateef bin Abdul Aziz, who is known as Ibn Malak (died. 801 AH). His most important resource in his book known as "Sharh Al-Wiqaya", where his proficiency appears in deriving the most important resources of the "Hanafi" doctrine from the jurisprudential, linguistic and principles of jurisprudence books. The importance of this study increases for specialists in the study of Al- Hanafi jurisprudence in particular and Islamic jurisprudence in general if we know that he included in this manuscript texts of books that have been lost, or were unknown .
 He also unleashed a number of resources without restricting them to an author, even though in the doctrine there are a number of similar works in terms of the title. Ibn Malik had more of a transfer from specific books, and he was limited in transferring from the other to easy places. He relied on the quotation of the late writers more the applicants. Ibn Malak referred to more than sixty books in the chapter of Purification and Prayers only. Then this study came to introduce these books and show the unknown, and identify the similar resources, and what is meant by them.