The fundamentals of Usul al-Fiqh - Dar Ibn Uthaymeen - Muhammad bin Saleh al-Uthaymeen Foundation

He authored it, may Allah have mercy on him, with his own hand, and it is a concise and profound summary of the roots of jurisprudence for the beginner student, in the briefest phrase and most eloquent words. In it, the sheikh clarifies the حكم (ruling) and its categories, knowledge and its categories, speech, command, and prohibition, general and specific, absolute and restricted, comprehensive and clear, apparent and intended, abrogation, news, consensus, analogy, contradiction, and the arrangement between evidences, fatwa and its requirements, ijtihad, and imitation. The book concludes with questions to reinforce the information contained in it. This book was a curriculum for the principles of jurisprudence in the academic curriculum for students of the scientific institutes affiliated with Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University.