The Compendium of the Issues of the Code, 10 Volumes

The Maliki School of Thought

Author's name: Ibn Yunus al-Siqilli

The book “Al-Jami’ li Masa’il al-Mudawwana wa al-Mukhtalata” by the imam, jurist, and knowledgeable scholar “Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Tamimi al-Siqilli (d. 451 AH)” is among the best, most excellent, and most beautiful of those who took care of the Mudawwana. He summarized it in a wonderful summary without compromising its issues, and explained it in a comprehensive and comprehensive explanation, collecting its scattered issues, citing the narrations as evidence, quoting its additions and distributed counterparts, explaining what was difficult in its wording, expanding its wording for ease, directing it in a direction consistent with its contents, clarifying its aspects and interpretation from other than the Mudawwana, and separating between its similarities so that some of them would not be confused with each other.* The imam relied on the most important sources of Maliki jurisprudence, such as Ibn al-Qasim, Ibn al-Mawaz, Ibn al-Utbi, and on the authority of Ibn Wahb, Ibn Habib, al-Abhari, Ibn al-Qassar, Ibn Khuwayzmandad, Abu Ishaq ibn Sha’ban, and Abu Bakr ibn al-Labad. And sometimes he used an example: More than one of the people of Baghdad said, Some of our companions said, and most of the mountains of Maliki jurisprudence and its pillars were those who came before him.* The importance of the book “Al-Jami’ li Masa’il al-Mudawwana wa al-Mukhtalata” by Ibn Yunus in Maliki jurisprudence is great and profound, for it is the reliance of the Malikis in the past, and it was even called the “Mushaf of the School,” in comparison to the Noble Qur’an in which everything is explained, and that whoever has the “Jami’ li Masa’il al-Mudawwana wa al-Mukhtalata” is sufficient for it, and it is in truth a name that matches its meaning.* People circulated the book “Al-Jami’ li Masa’il al-Mudawwana wa al-Mukhtalata,” in the East and the West, and they copied from it. Indeed, you can hardly find a Maliki book on jurisprudence, hadith, or interpretation that has not been copied from Ibn Yunus, and this alone is sufficient to prove the value of the book, in addition to the fact that some of them memorized it by heart and answered questions from it.