Hanafi jurisprudence in India

Nasafi, Abu al-Barakat al- / Nasrallah ibn Ahmed al-Kermani (transl.). Kanz al-Daqa'iq [The treasures of exactitudes].

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A Persian translation, copied on the Indian subcontinent, of "Kanz al-daqa'iq", or the "treasures of exactitudes", a summary of legal rulings from the Hanafi school of Islamic law. This work prescribes legal solutions for many aspects of ritual and personal life, including issues of particular importance to women: marriage, divorce, inheritance, and even ritual purity during menstruation. Other sections cover the legal rules around commerce in the slave trade, and the contracts, sales, and manumission of enslaved people in the Islamic world.

The translator of this manuscript is named as Nasrallah ibn Ahmed al-Kermani; his nisba places his origins in the Persian province of Kerman. The author of the original Arabic was the famous medieval legal scholar Imam al-Nasafi (d. 1310 CE), who travelled to Mecca and to Baghdad, where he lived and worked as a legal scholar and writer in the late 13th and early 14th centuries CE. He was a foremost figure in Hanafi jurisprudence, named the Protector of the Faith (Hafiz al-Din) for his scholarship. The "Treasure of Exactitudes" is one of his most important works.