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Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā

Book by Al-Hilli

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Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā (Memorandum for Jurists) is a book on Shiite jurisprudence written by Allamah Al-Hilli^[1]

The book of Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā is considered one of the greatest books on Shiite jurisprudence or fiqh. The book is cited by other scholars as a reference. Allamah Hilli mainly points to the opinions and ideas of Shaykh Tusi rather than those of other Shiite Scholars.

The book was written at the request of Allamah Al-Hilli's son, Fakhr Al Muhaqqiq.

Allamah Al-Hilli writes about his intention to express and explain the summaries of indult (Fatwa) of the jurist and rules of Scholars (Ulama) according to "best explanations, the most correct way, the most rightness style, and the most confident methods".^[2]

The author divided the book into four rules: on praying, on transactions, on unilateral obligation, on judgments. The book is divided to fifteen sections; some of them are as follows:

• The book of purity
• The books of Alms and fasting
• The book of safekeeping
• The book of buying either pecuniary or credit.^[3]

The book has many characteristics. Some of them are as follows:

• Refer to consensus (Ijma) as Jomhourat Al Ulama or most of the religious scholars.^[4]
• Documentation through Imam's narrations.^[5]
• Rejecting of juridical principles such as Istehsan and Qiyas.^[6]
• using of public resources.^[7]

The book has been summarized by Ibn Motawwej Bahrani, one of the pupils of Allamah Al-Hilli, in a book called Mukhtasar Al Tadhkirah.^[8]

Al Tadhkirah has been frequently published in Iraq and Iran. Traditionally, it comes in twelve volumes, but later editions do not necessarily follow this practice.

Parts of Al Tadhkirah was also published by Allameh Mozaffar and sayyed Mortaza Khalkhali in Najaf.

• Tomala, Yvonne (1968). al-Mujallad al-awwal[-al-thānĭ] min kitab Tadhkirat al-fuqahā'.: al-Mujallad 1.
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• Josef W. Meri; Jere L. Bacharach (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index. Taylor & Francis. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
• Michael Cook; Najam Haider; Intisar Rabb; Asma Sayeed (8 January 2013). Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-230-11329-9.
• Najam Haider (26 September 2011). The Origins of the Shī'a: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kūfa. Cambridge University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-139-50331-0.