Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā

Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā (Memorandum for Jurists) is a book on Shiite jurisprudence written by Allamah Al-Hilli^[1] The book was written at the request of Allamah Al-Hilli's son, Fakhr Al Muhaqqiq.

Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā

Author	Al-Hilli
Language	Arabic
Genre	Hadith, Fiqh
Published	1997
Media type	Print

Overview

The book of Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā is considered one of the greatest books on Shiite jurisprudence or fiqh. The book is cited by other scholars as a reference. Allamah Hilli mainly points to the opinions and ideas of Shaykh Tusi rather than those of other Shiite Scholars.

Allamah Al-Hilli writes about his intention to express and explain the summaries of indult (Fatwa) of the jurist and rules of Scholars (Ulama) according to "best explanations, the most correct way, the most rightness style, and the most confident methods".^[2]

The book has been summarized by Ibn Motawwej Bahrani, one of the pupils of Allamah Al-Hilli, in a book called Mukhtasar Al Tadhkirah.^[3]

Content

The author divided the book into four rules: on praying, on transactions, on unilateral obligation, on judgments. The book is divided to fifteen sections; including: the book of purity, the books of Alms and fasting, the book of safekeeping, and the book of buying either pecuniary or credit.^[4]

The book has many characteristics, including: Refer to consensus (Ijma) as Jomhourat Al Ulama or most of the religious scholars,^[5] Documentation through Imam's narrations,^[6] Rejecting of juridical principles such as Istehsan and Qiyas,^[7] and use of public resources.^[8]

Publication

Al Tadhkirah has been frequently published in Iraq and Iran. Traditionally, it comes in twelve volumes, but later editions do not necessarily follow this practice.

Parts of Al Tadhkirah was also published by Allameh Mozaffar and sayyed Mortaza Khalkhali in Najaf.