The Mandhuumah of the Imaam Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsá al-Hāmilī is one of the most important works of the Hanafi Madh’hab that needs to be studied by the beginner in the Hanafi School.
Al-Haamili was a Yamani Shaykh who was born 769 years after the Hijrah. He was a prominent master of the Hanafi Madh’hab in his time and geography and excelled his peers.
He had written the Mandhuumah as a Poetical rendition or the book Bidaayatu Al-Mubtadii which was authored by the Shaykh Burhan al-Din al-Farghani al-Marghinani who passed away 593 years after the Hijrah. Al-Haamili mentioned in his Mandhuumah that the Bidaayah relied heavily on Al-Quduuri’s Mukhtasar, no doubt, and Al-Jaami’i As-Saghir of Abu Abdillah Muhammad bn Al-Hasan Ash-Shaybaani. But the Commentary of the Bidaayah authored by Al-Marghinaani himself and titled al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī is known as the the most important Hanafi Manual of the 6th Hijrah Century. Most books written in the Hanafi School relied on the Hidaayah after it, one of them was the Haamiliyyah.
May Allah be merciful upon them all, amin
Seek to study the Haamiliyyah with guidance, may Allah brighten your heart, amin.
Barakallahu Fikum
Jazakumullahu Khayran
