Author | Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri |
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Translator | Nuh Ha Mim Keller |
Language | Arabic |
Subject | Shafi'i Fiqh |
Publisher | Amana publications |
Pages | 1232 |
ISBN | 978-0-915957-72-9 |
OCLC | 780082934 |
Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper, also commonly known by its shorter title Reliance of the Traveller)[1][2] is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. The author of the main text is 14th-century scholar Shihabuddin Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn an-Naqib al-Misri (AH 702-769 / AD 1302–1367). Al-Misri based his work on the previous Shafi'i works of Imam Nawawi and Imam Abu Ishaq as-Shirazi, following the order of Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab (The Rarefaction) and the conclusions of Nawawi's Minhaj at-Talibin (The Seeker's Road).
As recently as 1991, Reliance of the Traveller became the first standard Islamic legal reference to be translated into English (or any of the European languages), to be certified by Al-Azhar University in Egypt.