The books of fiqh
Radd al-Muḥtār ʿalā ad-Durr al-Mukhtār
رد المحتار على الدر المختار
Muḥammad Amīn Ibn ʿĀbidīn · محمد أمين ابن عابدين · d. 1252 AH
The final great gloss of the school; the standard reference for the fatwa position.
- Tradition
- Hanafi fiqh
- On the allow-list
- Yes
Cited by 8 sections
- What cleaning after the toilet (istinja) is, and what may be used for it What cleaning after the toilet (istinja) is, what may be used for it, the five conditions a dry substance must meet, and when wiping no longer suffices and washing with water becomes obligatory.
- The procedure and etiquette of relieving oneself The words to say, the order of cleaning, forbidden places to relieve oneself, and the acts disliked while doing so.
- The nine kinds of fast The nine categories of fasting in the Hanafi school, from the obligatory fasts of Ramadan, through the emphasised and recommended fasts, down to the fasts it is disliked or sinful to keep.
- The disliked (makruh) acts in prayer The two grades of disliked act in prayer (makruh tahrimi, close to forbidden, and makruh tanzihi, merely better avoided), what falls under each, and the rules on reciting the suras out of order.
- Miscellaneous rulings of the Friday prayer (Jumu'ah) Travelling on Friday, visiting graves, fasting alone on Friday, the two views on the hour of acceptance, and other rulings that don't fit elsewhere.
- How to respond to the call to prayer (adhan) and the call to begin (iqamah) What to do on hearing the call to prayer (adhan), the words to say in reply to each phrase, the supplication after it, and how to answer the call to begin (iqamah).
- The sunnah and voluntary (nafl) prayers The twelve emphasised sunnahs of the day, the sunnahs that are not emphasised, and the voluntary (nafl) prayers, including the sunrise (Ishraq), forenoon (Duha) and after-Maghrib (Awwabin) prayers.
- The obligatory acts of prayer (wajibat) The twelve necessary (wajib) acts of prayer: the Fatiha, the surah, order, stillness (tumaninah), the sittings, the testimony (tashahhud), recitation volume, the closing greeting (salam), the supplication (qunoot) and the Eid takbirs.