Shaykh Muhammad Hasan Hitu (Allah preserve him) is a contemporary scholar of legal methodology with a number of published works on the subject. I’m currently working on translating one of his short works. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of the book that explains how the discipline of usul al-fiqh developed. Enjoy!
The discipline of legal [...]

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
This morning, in preparation for the Hadith or Fiqh course that begins this weekend, I was flipping through Shaykh Muhammad `Awwamah’s (Allah preserve him) priceless book, Athar al-Hadith al-Sharif Fi Ikhtilaf al-A’imma al-Fuqaha, and came across the following quote,
Ibn Wahb said, “Had Allah not rescued me through [...]

Hadith or Fiqh? The Relationship Between Hadith and the Four Schools of Law is a new four-week course on this extremely important issue. Taught by Shaykh Hamza Karamali, the course starts August 19th.
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-From Foundations of Islamic Law taught by Shaykh Faraz