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Al-Wasiyya - The Advise Of The Esteemed Scholar Muwaffaq ad-Din Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
This book is a distillation of the wisdom gained after years of
study of sacred texts from the Islamic tradition. The author, Muwaffaq
ad-Din al-Maqdisi, is one of the foremost scholars in the Hanbali
school, and this concise and inspiring work sums up the realities of
this world and the next, gathered in kernels of advice to his fellow
believers.
Biography of Imam Ibn Qudama
Ibn Qudama is Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Qudama, Abu Muhammad
Muwaffaq al-Din al-Jama’ili al-Maqdisi, born in Jama’il, Palestine, in
541/1146. A Hanbali scholar and Imam, he was educated in Damascus, and
was the author of the nine-volume Al-Mughni [The enricher] in
Hanbali jurisprudence as well as other works in fundamentals of Sacred
Law, tenets of faith, geneology, biography, and Qur’anic exegesis. He
travelled to Baghdad in 561 AH and lived there four years before
returning to Damascus, where he died in 620/1223.
Translated by Aisha Bewley.         
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