The Methodology of Ibn al-Amir al-San‘ani in the Book Al-‘Uddah ‘ala Kitab Ahkam al-Ahkam: Sharh ‘Umdat al-Ahkam (The Book of Prayer as a Model)

Abstract

This study aims to identify the scientific methodology of Ibn al-Amir al-San’ani in his book Al-‘Adda on the book Ihkam al-Ahkam Sharh Umdat al-Ahkam (Book of Prayer), and to introduce Ibn Daqiq al-Eid - the author of the text - and Ibn al-Amir al-San’ani - the commentator of the text - and to clarify their era and scientific status, in addition to revealing the scientific wealth contained in the book, in the section devoted to the study, since the book collected sciences. Religion in general, and the science of hadith in particular, and the research method depends on studying the hadiths mentioned in the book Ihkam al-Ahkam in the specific section - the Book of Prayer - and grading them scientifically, citing the issues that Ibn al-Amir al-San’ani discussed or referred to, and studying the topic that is the focus of these hadiths with a jurisprudential and hadith study.

The research topic deals with the methodology of Ibn al-Amir al-San’ani in the book al-‘Uddah. I first dealt with the definition of the author and the commentator, then I mentioned some examples of the author’s scientific methodology, such as: his method of biographies of prominent figures, the graduation of hadiths and their rulings, his method of presenting jurisprudential issues, and citing the scholars’ disagreement on them.

Among the results I have reached: The book brings together the sciences of Islamic law in jurisprudence, as well as hadith and its sciences through the graduation of hadiths and the rulings on them, in addition to the translation of the notables mentioned in it, as well as the sciences of language through clarifying and explaining the meanings of strange words and rhetorical formulas and explaining what is meant by them. The presence of these sciences - the sciences of Sharia and language - in the commentary of Ibn al-Amir al-San’ani is among the understanding and knowledge that God Almighty has bestowed upon him, and it is evidence of the precision and abundance of his knowledge