Introduction 1-17

Introduction 1-17 Author: Abu Umar ibn Abd al-Barr al-Namri al-Qurtubi Hijri 368 – 463 Verification, authentication, commentary, diacritical marks, and study: Bashar Awad Ma'ruf | Salim Muhammad Amir | Muhammad Bashar Awadi This book is considered one of the most famous commentaries on the Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas al-Asbahi al-Madani, the most comprehensive, highest in status, most beneficial, and most well-known, where he revealed subtle points overlooked by jurists, unlocking their locks, chains, and shackles with the light of his enlightened mind and sincere intellect. And the Tamhid is not only the greatest book of comparative jurisprudence across most of its schools, but also a book on hadith, criticism and praise of narrators, history, and biographies, as well as successful excursions into language and literature, among other sciences. There is no doubt that readers of the "Tamhid" will find it an essential scientific encyclopedia, and it will bear witness to its great status among Islamic books. Imam, the memorizer, the scholar Abu Muhammad ibn Hazm al-Zahiri said: "I do not know of any work on the explanation of hadith jurisprudence like it, so how can anything be better than it." And Judge Iyaad said: "Abu Umar authored the book Tamhid... and it is a book that no one has made like it in its method." Its author, Imam, the memorizer, al-Hafiz ibn Abd al-Barr al-Andalusi, is well known. He spent many years collecting the materials of the "Tamhid," preparing its chapters and discussions, and revisited hundreds of sources in jurisprudence, hadith, language, history, and biographies. Professor Dr. Bashar Awad Ma'ruf has verified this book according to the latest scientific methods, after collecting the available copies in Morocco, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ireland, and others, and he took a long time in its verification.