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List of Commentaries on Hidayah

bright light March 16, 2018

I had to refer to Kashf for a footnote on Marghīnānī, to count the number of commentaries etc. on Hidāyah. After counting a few names, I began listing them [transcribing] to avoid confusion; thereafter, it became a handsome list, and instead of throwing it away, I am including it here, assuming that a student or a researcher may find some use for it. wa billahi’t tawfīq. This list is also present as an appendix in the book Sanad of Alahazrat Explained.

The following list is made mostly from Kashf al-Żunūn:[1]

  1. Sharĥ by his student Imām Ĥusāmuddīn Ĥusayn ibn Álī al-Saghnāqī al Ĥanafī, d.710 and it is the first commentary on Hidāyah as said by Suyūţī in his Ţabaqāt al-Nuĥāh, named Al-Nihāyah. He completed in Rabīý al-Awwal, 700 AH.
  2. This was abridged by Sirājuddīn al-Qonawi, d.770 AH and named Khulāşatu’n Nihāyah fī Fawā’id al-Hidāyah.
  3. It is also said that the first commentary was by Ĥamīduddīn Álī ibn Muĥammad the blind (Đarīr) al-Bukhārī, d. 666 AH in two volumes and named Al-Fawā’id.
  4. Shaykh Imām Qiwāmuddīn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad al-Bukhārī al-Kākī, d. 749 AH wrote a commentary named Miýrāj al-Dirāyah ila Sharĥ al-Hidāyah and completed it on 21st Muharram 745 AH.
  5. Al-Ghāyah Sharĥ al-Hidāyah, Shaykh Imām Qiwāmuddīn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad al-Bukhārī al-Kākī, d. 749 AH.
  6. Tāj al-Sharīáh Úmar ibn şadr al-Sharīáh al-Awwal Úbaydullāh al-Maĥbūbī al-Ĥanafī, d. 672 AH and named it Nihāyatu’l Kifāyah fī Dirāyatu’l Hidāyah. Completed in Shábān 673 AH in Kirmān.
  7. Commentary by Shaykh al-Imām Abu’l Ábbās Aĥmad ibn Ibrāhīm  ibn Ábdu’l Ghanī al-Surūjī al-Qāđī al-Ĥanafī, d.710 AH in many volumes and named it Al-Ghāyah, but he did not complete it.
  8. The above was completed by the judge, Al-Qāđī Saáduddīn Muĥammad al-Dayrī, d.867 AH from Kitāb al-Aymān [Oaths] to Bāb al-Murtad [Apostasy] in 6 volumes.
  9. Shaykh Jalāluddīn Úmar ibn Muĥammad al-Khabbāzī, d. 691 AH wrote a gloss on it which is famous [and incomplete]; Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad al-Qonawī completed it and named it Takmilah al-Fawā’id.
  10. Shaykh Imām Qiwāmuddīn Amīr Kātib ibn Amīr Úmar al-Itqānī al-Ĥanafī, d. 758 AH in 3 volumes and named it: Ghāyatu’l Bayān wa Nādiratu’l Aqrān. He has said: I was requested in Egypt in 721 AH that I write a commentary on Al-Hidāyah; I started writing it in Cairo, on the 1st of Rabīý al-Aākhir, 711 AH until it was completed in Damascus in Dhu’l Qaádah, 747 AH and the period of compilation was 26 years and 7 months.
  11. Al-Kifāyah fī Sharĥ al-Hidāyah; [the author is Sayyid Jalāluddīn al-Kurlānī; passed away on the 23rd of Jumādah al-Aākhirah, 767 AH]. It is also said that the author is Maĥmūd ibn Úbaydullāh ibn Maĥmūd Tāj al-Sharīáh, the author of Al-Wiqāyah.
  12. Shaykh Muĥīyuddīn Ábdu’l Qadir ibn Muĥammad al-Qurashi, d. 775 AH; extracted the ĥadīth mentioned in it and named it Al-Ínāyah bi Maárifati Aĥādīth al-Hidāyah and completed it in 727 AH.
  13. Tahdhīb al-Asmā’a al-Wāq’iah fi’l Hidāyah, by Ábdu’l Qādir ibn Muĥammad al-Qurashī, d. 775 AH.
  14. Awhām al-Hidāyah, by Ábdu’l Qādir ibn Muĥammad al-Qurashī, d. 775 AH.
  15. Commentary by Ĥāfiżuddīn Abu’l Barakāt Ábdullāh ibn Aĥmad al-Nasafī, d.710 AH. In Ţabaqāt of Taqi’uddīn in the handwriting of Ibn Shiĥnah it is written: “it is not known that Nasafī wrote any sharĥ of Hidāyah”. In the margins of Jawāhir, it is written that Nasafī entered Baghdād in 700 AH.
  16. Commentary by Imām Kamāluddīn Muĥammad ibn Ábd al-Wāĥid al-Sīwāsī, Ibn Humam al-Ĥanafī, d.861 AH and named it: Fat’ĥ al-Qadīr li’l Áājiz al-Faqir. He reached until Kitāb al-Wakālah and could not complete it. He started it in 829 AH after reading it for 19 years under his shaykh Imām Sirājuddīn Úmar ibn Álī al-Kanānī known as Qārī al-Hidāyah, d. 829 AH.
  17. The above was completed by Qāđī Zadah, Mufti Shamsuddīn Aĥmad, d.988 AH; and named his work: Natā’ij al-Afkār fī Kashfi’r Rumūz wa’l Asrār.
  18. There is a commentary on Al-Hidāyah by Mawlānā Álī al-Qārī, d. 1014 AH in two volumes.
  19. A commentary on Al-Wiqāyah fī Masā’il al-Hidāyah, by Álī al-Qārī, d. 1014 AH.
  20. A gloss on Ibn Humām’s Fat’ĥ al-Qadīr, by Álī al-Qārī, d. 1014 AH.
  21. Shaykh Ibrāhīm ibn Muĥammad al-Ĥalabī, d.956 has abridged Fat’ĥ al-Qadīr in two volumes with his critique on it.
  22. Ibn Humām’s teacher, Qārī al-Hidāyah has written annotations on Hidāyah.
  23. Two commentaries by Sirājuddīn Úmar ibn Is’ĥāq al-Ghaznawī al-Hindī, d.773 AH:
    1. Larger commentary by name: Al-Tawshīĥ
    1. Shorter commentary in 6 volumes.
  24. Commentary by Akmaluddīn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad al-Bābartī al-Ĥanafī, d. 786 AH; in two volumes named Al-Ínāyah. [It is said that it discusses 3000 problems].
  25. On the above, Mawlā Mufti Saádullāh ibn Ýīsā, d.945 has written a gloss.
  26. A gloss on the commentary of Akmaluddīn by Shaykh Sarīyuddīn Muĥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Darūrī al-Mişrī al-Ĥanafī, d.1066 AH.
  27. Commentary on Hidāyah by Álā’uddīn Álī ibn Muĥammad ibn al-Ĥasan al-Khalāţī, d.708 AH.
  28. Commentary on Hidāyah by Álā’uddīn Álī ibn Úthmān ibn al-Turkmānī al-Mārdīnī, d.750 AH, but he did not complete it.
  29. The above was completed by his son, Jamāluddin Ábdullāh, d.769 AH.
  30. Álā’uddīn Álī ibn Úthmān ibn al-Turkmānī al-Mārdīnī, d. 750 has abridged the Hidāyah; Mukhtaşar al-Hidāyah.
  31. The same Álā’uddīn has compiled the ĥadīth in Hidāyah and named it: Al-Kifāyah fī Maárifati Aĥādīth al-Hidāyah in two volumes.
  32. Al-Bināyah,[2] an extensive multi-volume commentary by Qāđī Badruddīn Maĥmūd ibn Ĥamad al-Áynī, d. 855 AH. He completed it in Muharram of 850 AH in Cairo and he was in his nineties! He started writing it in the Şafar of 817 AH and took 33 years to complete it.
  33. A supercommentary on the above by Muĥibuddīn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad ibn Maĥmūd Ibn Shiĥnah al-Ĥalabī, d.890 AH; and he named it: Nihāyatu’n Nihāyah.
  34. Commentary on Hidāyah by Shaykh Abu’l Makārim Aĥmad ibn Ĥasan al-Tabrīzī al-Jārbardī al-Shāfiýī, d. 746 AH. [Írāqī has mentioned him in Dhayl al-Íbar].
  35. Tājuddīn Aĥmad ibn Úthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mārdīnī al-Turkmānī al-Ĥanafī al-Mişrī, d.745 AH.
  36. Commentary by Sinānuddīn Yūsuf …. Al-Rūmī; who did not complete it. [also see #55 above].
  37. But the above was completed by his nephew (son of his brother) Muĥammad ibn Muşţafā, d.1039 AH.
  38. Commentary by Shamsuddīn Muĥammad ibn Úthmān ibn al-Ĥarīrī, d.728 AH.
  39. Commentary by Khudādād Dihlawī
  40. Commentary by Aĥmad ibn Muşţafā, Tāsh-Kubrīzadah, d.968 AH.
  41. Annotations on Hidāyah by Sayyidi Ábdu’l Raĥmān ibn Álī al-Amāsī, d. 983 AH.
  42. Annotations on beginning portions by Shaykh Saádī al-Afandī, and he named it Targhīb al-Adab.
  43. Commentary by Shaykh Álī ibn Muĥammad known as Musannafak al-Harawī al-Rāzī, d. 875 AH.
  44. Naşb al-Rāyah li Aĥādīth al-Hidāyah. Exegesis and ĥadīth cross-referencing by Shaykh Jamaluddin Ábdullāh ibn Yūsuf al-Zaylaýī, d.762 AH. Ibn Ĥajar comments that his referencing was comprehensive and he is very just in citing the positions of other madh’habs.
  45. The above was abridged by Shaykh al-Islām Aĥmad ibn Álī ibn Ĥajar al-Ásqalānī, d.852 AH and he named it: Al-Dirāyah fī Muntakhabi Takhrīji Aĥādīth al-Hidāyah.
  46. Annotations on it by Mawlā Abu’s Súūd ibn Muĥammad al-Ímādī, d.982 AH. His annotations are brief on the chapter on trade.
  47. Another annotation on Kitāb al-Jihād, by the above author named: Nihāyatu’l Amjād.
  48. Annotations by Mawlā Muĥammad ibn Pir Álī Birkilī [Birgivi, Birkīvī], d. 981 AH.
  49. Annotations by Babā Zadah, Muĥammad al-Qirmānī, d.994 AH.
  50. Annotations by Mawlā Ábdu’l Ĥalīm ibn Muĥammad, Akhī-Zādah, d.1013 AH.
  51. Annotations by Mawlā Zakariyyah ibn Bayrām al-Anqarawī al-Rūmī, the Mufti, d.1001 AH. He refuted Qāđī Zādah’s objections in this and completed in the year 994 AH.
  52. Annotations by Mawlā Áţāyillāh.
  53. Annotations by Álī ibn Qāsim al-Zaytūnī, al-Marghīnānī, d. 979 AH.
  54. Annotations by Mawlā Şārī Kurz Zādah, Muĥammad; d. 990 AH.
  55. Annotations by Sharafuddīn Yáqūb ibn Idrīs al-Rūmī, d. 833 AH or 844 AH.
  56. Annotations by Mawlā Aĥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Kamāl Pāshā, d. 940 AH.
  57. Annotations on the beginning portions as a monograph by Mawlā Yūsuf Sinān Pāshā ibn Khađir Beyk ibn Jalāluddīn Rūmī, d. 891 AH.
  58. Commentary on Hidāyah by Muşliĥuddīn Muşţafā ibn Zakariyyah ibn Aāy-do-Ghamsh al-Qirmānī, d. 809 AH; he named it Irshād al-Dirāyah.
  59. Commentary by Qāđī Ábdu’l Raĥīm ibn Álī al-Aāmidī, named Zubdatu’d Dirāyah.
  60. Notes on Hidāyah by Shaykh Jalāluddīn Aĥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tabbānī, d.793 AH; his work is named Al-Ínāyah bi Sha’n al-Hidāyah.
  61. Marginalia on it by Ibn Bālī, d. 992 AH.
  62. Commentary on Hidāyah by Ibn Ábd al-Ĥaqq Ibrāhīm ibn Álī al-Dimashqī, d. 744 AH.
  63. Kitāb fīmā Ahmalahu Şāĥib al-Hidāyah, by Aĥmad ibn Úthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, known as Ibn al-Turkmān, d.744 AH.
  64. Commentary by Aĥmad ibn Ĥasan, known as Ibn al-Zarkashī, d.738 AH. Ismāýīl Pasha has mentioned his name as Aĥmad
  65. Commentary on Hidāyah by Tājuddīn Abū Muĥammad Aĥmad ibn Ábdu’l Qādir al-Ĥanafī, known as Ibn Maktūm, d. 749 AH; did not complete it.
  66. Annotations on the above by Muĥīyuddīn Mawlā Muĥammad ibn Muşţafā Shaykh-Zādah, d. 951 AH.
  67. Also by Najmuddīn Abū al-Ţāhir Is’ĥāq ibn Álī al-Ĥanafī, d.711 AH, in two volumes
  68. Annotations by Sayfuddīn Aĥmad, the grandson of Saáduddīn Taftāzānī, d.906 AH.
  69. Commentary by Shaykh Sayyid Sharīf Álī ibn Muĥammad al-Jurjānī, d.816 AH.
  70. A Marginalia on the above by Muĥibuddīn Muĥammad ibn Aĥmad, known as Mawlānā-Zādah al-Aqsarā’yī al-Ĥanafī, d.859 AH.
  71. A reorganised compilation of issues from Hidāyah by Kamāluddīn Muĥammad ibn Aĥmad Tāsh-Kubrīzadah [Junior] al-Rūmī al-Ĥanafī, d. 1030 AH; and he named it: Úddatu Aş’ĥāb al-Bidāyah wa’n Nihāyah fī Tajrīdī Masā’il al-Hidāyah.
  72. An abridgement by Abu’l Malīĥ Muĥammad ibn Úthmān, known as Ibn al-Aqrab, d.774; in which he extracted 774 issues and named it: Al-Riáāyah fī Tajrīdi Masā’il al-Hidāyah.
  73. Nukāt Aĥqar al-Warā, an abridgement of Hidāyah by Al-Samarqandi al-Ĥumaydī. He abridged this for the use of Sultan Muĥammad al-Fāţiĥ.
  74. Commentary on the above by Shaykh Imām Abū Ábdullāh Muĥammad ibn Mubārak-Shāh ibn Muĥammad, known as Muýīn al-Harawī; he named it: Al-Dirāyah and has mentioned it in his commentary on Manār.
  75. Rawđatu’l Akhyār, a commentary on Hidāyah.
  76. Abridgement of Rawđatu’l Akhyār, by Ibrāhīm ibn Aĥmad al-Mūşalī, d.652 AH and named it Sulālatu’l Hidāyah.
  77. Tawjīh al-Ínāyah li Jam’á Shurūĥ al-Wiqāyah, by Shaykh Abu’l Yumn Muĥammad ibn al-Muĥibb, in two volumes.
  78. A marginalia by Muşliĥuddīn Muşţafā ibn Shábān al-Sarwarī, d.969 AH.
  79. A summary of Hidāyah, Khulāşah by Qāđī Álā’uddīn Maĥmūd ibn Ábdullāh ibn Şāýid al-Ĥārithī al-Marwadhī, d.606 AH.
  80. Commentary on Hidāyah by Taqīyuddīn Abū Bakr ibn Muĥammad al-Ĥuşanī al-Shāfiýī, d. 829 AH.
  81. Commentary on Hidāyah by Najmuddīn Ibrāhīm ibn Álī al-Tarsūsī al-Ĥanafī, d.758 AH, in five volumes.
  82. Commentary by Shaykh Ĥamīduddīn Mukhlis ibn Ábdullāh al-Hindī al-Dihlawī, but he did not complete it.
  83. Targhīb al-Labīb, Annotations on the commentary of Hidāyah by Ibn Kamāl; by Ábdu’l Raĥmān. In which the author says that he tried to compile a commentary and removing the criticism and refutations of Ibn Kamal (Ibn Humām), who in spite of his high station in knowledge and level of research, unfortunately wrote an argumentative commentary and reduced the stature of respectable elder scholars to those of blind followers; that, though he was dismissive, he will earn a reward for his good intention of researching accurate solutions for juridical problems.
  84. Munyatu’l Almuýī fī mā Fāta min Takhrīji Aĥādīth al-Hidāyah li’z Zaylaýī, by Állāmah Zaynuddīn Qāsim ibn Quţlubughā ibn Ábdullāh al-Ĥanafī, d.879.
  85. Annotations on Hidāyah by Álī ibn Muĥammad ibn al-Ĥasan al-Qādūsī al-Rikābī, d.708 AH.
  86. Zawā’id al-Hidāyah álā al-Qudūrī, by Nūruddīn Álī ibn Naşr ibn Úmar, known as Ibn al-Sūsī, d. 695 AH. Ábdu’l Qadir al-Qurashī says that he has seen it in the author’s own hand.
  87. Sharĥ al-Hidāyah by Ábdu’l Ázīz ibn Aĥmad Álā’uddīn al-Bukhārī, d. 730 AH. He wrote until Kitāb al-Nikaĥ.
  88. Takmilah fi Fawā’id al-Hidāyah, by Maĥmūd ibn Aĥmad al-Qonawī, d.777 AH.
  89. Khulāşah al-Nihāyah fī Mukhtaşar Sharĥ al-Hidāyah li’s Saghnāqī, by Jamāluddīn Maĥmūd ibn Aĥmad ibn Masúūd, known as Ibn al-Sirāj al-Dimashqī al-Qonawī, d.777 AH.
  90. Khulāşah al-Nihāyah Hashiyah al-Hidāyah, by Abū al-Thanā’a Jamaluddin al-Qonawī, Maĥmūd ibn Aĥmad ibn Masúūd, d. 777 AH.

[1] I had transcribed nearly 80 names from Kashf al-Żunūn; and I got some more names from the preface of Tanbīh álā Mushkilāt al-Hidāyah, by Ábdu’l Ĥakīm ibn Muĥammad Shākir; and added some information gleaned from his list to my list of Kashf.

[2] Ĥājī Khalīfah calls it Al-Nihāyah.