al-Shifa bi-Tarif Huquq al-Mustafa
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About The Book
al-Shifa bi-Tarif Huquq al-Mustafa is among the most beloved devotional and theological works of the Sunni tradition — a sustained meditation on the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) organised into four major parts: his noble qualities and the divine praise of him; the rights he has upon his umma; the rulings concerning him; and what he has been protected from. Qadi Iyad of Sabta composed the work in the early sixth Islamic century, weaving together the Quran, the canonical hadith, the consensus of the Companions, and a vast tradition of Sunni learning, until the resulting book became something more than a compendium: it became the formative text of the Sunni understanding of Prophetic love and reverence.
Read continuously in Sunni circles for over eight centuries — recited aloud in Ramadan, taught in circles of seekers, studied for ijaza by hadith scholars — al-Shifa has been the subject of more than forty major commentaries, including those of al-Khafaji, al-Qari, and al-Khaffaji. Imam al-Subki famously held that mastery of al-Shifa was a precondition for serious teaching of the Sunni sira.
About The Author
al-Qadi Iyad b. Musa al-Yahsubi (476-544 AH / 1083-1149 CE), born in Sabta (Ceuta) in modern-day Morocco, was a Maliki jurist, Ashari theologian, and chief judge of Sabta and later Granada under the Almoravids. He combined deep expertise in fiqh, hadith, and tarajim (biographical literature); beyond al-Shifa, his Ikmal al-Mualim is a celebrated commentary on Sahih Muslim, and his Tartib al-Madarik is a foundational biographical dictionary of the Maliki school.
عن الكتاب
"الشفا بتعريف حقوق المصطفى" من أَجَلِّ كتب السنّة في تعظيم النبي ﷺ. صنّفه القاضي عياض اليحصبي في القرن السادس الهجري، وقَسَّمَه إلى أربعة أقسام: في فضائل النبي ﷺ وثناء الله عليه، وما يَجبُ له على أمّته من حقوق، وما يَخْتَصُّ به من أحكام، وما عُصِم منه. جمع المؤلِّفُ في كتابه القرآنَ والأحاديث الصحيحة، وأقوال الصحابة، وما تَواتَر من تراث السنّة، حتى صار الكتاب نصَّ السنّة الكلاسيكي في فهم محبّة النبي ﷺ وتعظيمه. عُكِف عليه أهل السنّة قراءةً وتدريساً منذ ثمانية قرون، وله أكثر من أربعين شرحاً، منها للخفاجي والقاري.
عن المؤلف
القاضي عياض بن موسى اليحصبي (٤٧٦-٥٤٤ هـ) فقيه مالكي ومتكلّم أشعري، قاضي سبتة ثم غرناطة في دولة المرابطين. جمع بين الفقه والحديث وعلم التراجم. له إلى جانب الشفاء "إكمال المعلم بفوائد مسلم" شرحاً لصحيح مسلم، و"ترتيب المدارك" قاموساً في تراجم المالكية.
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Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi: Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi (476–544 AH / 1083–1149 CE), honored across the Muslim world as Qadi Iyad, was among the foremost scholars of the Islamic West during the era of the Murabitun (Almoravids). He was born in Ceuta to a family of Andalusian origin that had settled in the Maghrib. From a young age he was immersed in the sciences of his day, mastering hadith, Maliki jurisprudence, Arabic language, and history, and gathering narrations from many teachers, including the hadith scholar Abu Ali al-Ghassani. He was Maliki in law and Ashʿari in creed. Appointed a judge while still young, he served as qadi of his native Ceuta and later of Granada in Andalus, earning a lasting reputation for learning and integrity. His scholarship spans several enduring works. Best known is al-Shifaʾ bi-Taʿrif Huquq al-Mustafa, a tender and exhaustive treatment of the Prophet Muhammad's virtues, character, rights, and miracles, which became one of the most copied and commented-upon devotional books in Islamic history. In Maliki studies he composed Tartib al-Madarik, a major biographical survey of the scholars of the school, alongside works on hadith and creed. With the rise of the Almohads his standing came under pressure, and he died in Marrakesh in 544 AH, remembered as a pillar of Maliki and prophetic learning.
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