The legal choices of Al-Hafiz Ibn Abd Al-Barr

Abdulaziz Al-Rubaish Author: Abdulaziz Mohammed Othman Al-Rubaish Publisher: Dar Ibn Al-Jawzi Cover Type: Artistic Edition Number: First Publication Year: 1429 Selections of the Hafiz Ibn Abdul Barr's Jurisprudence in Worship The Hafiz Ibn Abdul Barr is Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Abdullah ibn Mohammed ibn Abdul Barr ibn Asem Al-Namri Al-Qurtubi, Abu Omar, and Al-Namri is a reference to a famous tribe. His birth was in the year 368 AH in the city of Cordoba. The Hafiz Ibn Abdul Barr grew up in a house of knowledge, virtue, and asceticism, where his father Abdullah ibn Mohammed was known for abundant knowledge, worship, and piety, and was recognized among the well-known jurists of Cordoba. The Hafiz Ibn Abdul Barr was under the care and attention of his father in terms of knowledge, but he passed away when Ibn Abdul Barr was only twelve years old. Ibn Abdul Barr continued his self-education until he reached a high level of knowledge, benefiting from scholars who came to Cordoba, visited it, and learned from their sciences and took from them. Growing up in Cordoba had a significant impact on the diversity of his sciences and his brilliance, as Cordoba in his time contained a distinguished group of scholars in various fields of knowledge. His travels across Al-Andalus also contributed to this. He excelled in various sciences and was known for them, most notably jurisprudence, hadith, readings, knowledge of differences, genealogy, and history. He also had a significant share of knowledge in language, literature, and poetry. The Hafiz was initially Zahiri in his early days but later became Maliki with a strong inclination towards Shafi'i jurisprudence. This book compiles the selections of Hafiz Ibn Abdul Barr's jurisprudence in worship.