Books Covered in al-Bahr al-Muheet fil-Usul al-Fiqh by Badr ad-Deen Az-Zarkashee

Al-Bahr al-Muhīt fī ‘Usūl al-Fiqh by Badr ad-Dīn az-Zarkashī

(745-794H/1344-1392M)Muhammad bin Bahādir bin Abd Allah az-Zarkashī, Abu Abd Allah, Badr ad-Dīn: Ālim in Shafi’ī Fiqh and ‘Usūl, Turkish in origin, born and died in Egypt.

He took Hadīth from al-Hāfith Maghlatā bin Qalīj. He took Recitation and Fiqh from al-‘Isnawī.  He also heard from ‘Imād ad-Dīn Ibn Kathīr.

He intended to compile in his book on ‘Usūl al-Fiqh principles according to 7 schools: Shafi’ī, Hanafī, Malikī, Hanbalī, Thahirī, and Shī’ah.

He relied upon the following scholars and their respective books in ‘Usuul from each school as follows:

Shafi’ī

By ash-Shafi’ī: Ar-Risālah, Ikhtilāf al-Hadīth, ‘Ahkām al-Qur’ān, al-‘Umm, Sharh ar-Risālah by as-Sayrafī, ash-Shāshī, al-Juwaynī and Abul-Walīd an-Naysābūrī, al-Qīyās by al-Muzanī, Radd alā Dāwud fī ‘Inkārahu al-Qīyās and Al-‘Ithār wal-‘Inthār by ‘Ibn Surayj, ad-Dalā’il wal-‘A’lām by as-Sayrafī, the books of ash-Shāshī, Abul-Hasan bin al-Qattān, Abu Alī bin Abī Hurayrah, Abu Ishāq al-Marwazī, Abul-‘Abbās bin al-Qādhī, Abu Abd Allah az-Zubayrī, Abul-Husayn Muhammad bin Yahyā bin Surāqah al-‘Āmirī, Abul-Qāsim bin Kajj, Abu Bakr bin Fuwrak, Abu Ishāq al-‘Isfarāyīnī, Abu Hāmid al-‘Isfarāyīnī, at-Taqrīb fīl-‘Usūl wat-Tahsīl by Salīm ar-Rāzī, Abu Mansūr al-Baghdādī, Sharh al-Kifāyah wal-Jidāl by al-Qādhī Abul-Tayyib at-Tabarī, at-Tabsirat wal-Mulakhkhas, al-Ma’ūnah, al-Hudūd, al-Luma’ and its explanation by Abu Ishāq (ash-Shirāzī), Abu Nasr bin al-Qushayrī, Abul-Husayn as-Suhaylī, al-‘Awsat and al-Wajīz by ‘Ibn Burhān, al-Quwāti’ by Abul-Muthaffar bin as-Sam’ānī, at-Taqrīb wal-‘Irshād by al-Qādhī Abu Bakr, at-Talkhīs and al-Burhān by Imam al-Haramayn, al-Māzarī, al-‘Ibayārī, Ibn al-‘Allāf, ‘Ibn al-Munīr, al-Muqtarah, Mukhtasar an-Nukat by ‘Ibn ‘Atā’ Allah al-Iskandarānī, an abridged version of that by ‘Ibn al-Munīr, al-Mustasfā by al-Ghazālī, its explanation by Abu Abd Allah al-‘Abdarī called al-Mustawfā, and the Nukat of it by ‘Ibn al-Hāj al-‘Ishbīlī, ‘Ibn Rushd’s abridgement of it, ‘Ibn Shās author of al-Jawāhir, ‘Ibn Rashīq, al-Mahsūl and its abridgement and its explanation by al-‘Asfahānī and al-Qirāfī, al-‘Ahkām by al-‘Āmidī, Mukhtasar of ‘Ibn al-Hājib, an-Nahāyah by as-Safī al-Hindī and his al-Fā’iq war-Risālat as-Sayfīyah, al-‘Anwān, Sharh al-‘Umdah and Sharh al-‘Imām by ‘Ibn Daqīq al-‘Īd.

Hanafī

Abu Bakr ar-Rāzī, al-Lubāb by Abul-Hasan al-Bustī al-Jurjānī, as-Sarkhasī, Taqwīm al-‘Adillah by Abu Zayd, al-Mīzān by as-Samarqandī, al-Kibrīt al-‘Ahmar by Abul-Fadhl al-Khuwārizmī, al-‘Ālimī wal-Badī’ by ‘Ibn as-Sā’ātī.

Mālikī

Al-Jāmi’ by Abu Abd Allah Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Mujāhid bin Khuwayz bin Mindād al-Mālikī al-Basrī, al-Wāsitah wal-Mulakhkhas and al-‘Ifādah wal-‘Ajwabah al-Fākhirah by al-Qādhī Abd al-Wahhāb, al-Fusūl by Abul-Walīd al-Bājī, al-Mahsūl by ‘Ibn al-‘Arabī, Abul-‘Abbās al-Qurtubī, and al-Quwā’id by al-Qirāfī.

Hanābilah

At-Tamhīd by Abul-Khattāb, al-Wādhih by ‘Ibn ‘Aqīl, ar-Rawdhah by al-Maqdisī and its abridgement by at-Tūfī.

Thāhirīyah

‘Usūl al-Fatwā by Abu Abd Allah Muhammad bin Sa’īd ad-Dāwudī and al-‘Ahkām by ‘Ibn Hazm.

Mu’tazilah

Al-‘Umdah and al-Mu’tamad by Abul-Husayn, al-Wādhih by Abu Yūsuf Abd as-Salām, an-Nukat by ‘Ibn al-‘Āridh.

Shī’ah

Ath-Tharī’ah by Sharīf ar-Radhī, al-Musādar by Mahmūd bin Alī al-Himsī.