Al-Hidayah
12th-century Hanafi legal manual / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a work of Islamic jurisprudence. For the UK youth organisation, see Al Hidayah (organisation). For other uses, see Hidayah (disambiguation).
Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi (d. 593 AH/1197 CE) (Arabic: الهداية في شرح بداية المبتدي, al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī), commonly referred to as al-Hidayah (lit. "the guidance", also spelled Hedaya[1]), is a 12th-century legal manual by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, which is considered to be one of the most influential compendium of Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh).[2][3] It has been subject of numerous commentaries.[2]