: For a comprehensive look at Ibn Qudamah's legal thought, many students turn to the English translation of his abridged work, Umdat al-Fiqh

is a work of comparative jurisprudence ( fiqh ) that discusses the views of various schools (Hanbali, Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanafi) and extinct ones like the Dhahiri.

Al-Mughni is not just a book of rulings (fatwas). It is a on Al-Khiraqi’s Mukhtasar , a core Hanbali text. However, Ibn Qudamah does not merely explain Hanbali positions. He does something far more valuable:

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