| Fayd al-Qadir | |
| Title Orig: | فيض القدير |
| Author: | Al-Munawi |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Language: | Arabic (originally) |
| Subject: | Hadith, Aqidah, Fiqih, Linguistic |
| Genre: | Sharh |
| Pub Date: | 16th century |
(Arabic: فيض القدير شرح الجامع الصغير|translit=Fayḍ al-Qadīr Sharḥ al-Jāmīʿ al-Ṣaghīr) is a multi-volume commentary on al-Suyuti's hadith collection titled Al-Jami' al-Saghir.[1] [2] Fayd al-Qadir is an exhaustive commentary by al-Munawi. Considered his most popular work, it is a very popular book amongst Sunnis.[3] [4]
The author extracts linguistic, aqidah, and fiqh benefits from the ahadith and connecting the narrations to other verses, ahadith, and statements of the scholars, Imam al-Munawi's explanation is distinctive in that it organises the ahadith in alphabetical order. This collection, which is frequently referenced, is drawn from well-known hadith literature.[5] The author reconciles the seemingly different hadiths and brings them together. He also grades the hadiths by scanning the narrators through his knowledge in Ilm al-rijal and criticizes it by pointing out weak or fabricated narrations.[6]
. Esposito . John L. . John L. Esposito. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World: Sata-Zurk. Oxford University Press. 1995. 174.