This is excellent news. As part of the SunniPath classes I have been reading the Mukhtasar al-Quduri which is also a Hanafi fiqh manual (and this books predecessor). The translation is available online (which is an excellent thing), however it seems very far from the actual text in terms of organization and there is still a lot of material not translated.

I hope that this manual fills a big gap in the English speaking Muslim community, something that the Reliance of the Traveller did for many people when it was made available.

The book will be launched along with the special event w/ Shaykh Hamza “The Legacy of Abu Hanifa” on April 8th.

A Hardback book of 660 Pages, it is available (for pre-order) in kitaabun.com, a UK store, for approximately £45 (About 77 U.S. Dollars)

I’ll be monitoring for US availability.

The Hidayah represents the refined, distilled and authentic version of a legal tradition developed over many centuries. It presents the corpus of Hanafi law in its approved and preferred form and forges an organic link with the other schools of law. There is no book that can match the power of al-Hidayah as a teaching manual. Education in Islamic law is not complete without this book. Accordingly, each and every madrassah, whatever its affiliation, imparts instruction in Islamic law through al-Hidayah. The book was designed by the author in such a way that it makes a vigorous interaction between teacher and student unavoidable. Each sentence presents a challenge both to the teacher and the taught. In this process, the student acquires a deep knowledge of the issues of fiqh and the methods of reasoning employed by Islamic law. The teacher, on his part, has a unique opportunity, while using the book in the class session, to give full expression to his skills and abilities.

Shaykh al-Islam, Muhaddith and Hafiz, Abu al-Hasan Burhan al-Din ‘Ali b. Abi Bakr b. ‘Abd al Jalal al-Farghani, al-Marghinani, the great Hanafi jurist, was born at Marghian in the vicinity of Farghana in 530/1135 (in Present Day Uzbekistan) He died in 593/1197. He studied with Mufti Najm al Din Abu Hafs ‘Umar al-Nasafi, his son Abu’l Layth Ahmad b. ‘Umar al Nasafi and other eminent teachers, and excelled in Hadith, Tafsir, Fiqh and other studies. His scholarship was recognised and praised by eminent scholars such as Imam Fakhr al-Din Qadi Khan, Zahir al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Bukhari (the author of al-Fatawa al-Zahiriyyah) and others.