About the sources

Where the books come from, how they were cut into masa’il, how the commentaries are tied to them, and how the map is ordered.

The books

The app holds 54 books and 630,394 masa’il. Each book comes from al-Maktaba al-Shamila in its edition, cut into masa’il: one ruling a row, in the book’s words, with its page in the edition.

Method	What it is	Books	Masa’il
cut by reading	Cut by reading: every row read, and every word checked by machine to be in its place in the book.	9	90,346
cut by rule	Cut by rule: a mas’ala begins at each paragraph and where its words open a new ruling or a new view («وإن», «ولو», «ويجب», «وقيل»); every word checked by machine to be in its place in the book, not every row read.	28	498,766
from its commentary’s brackets	Cut by rule: its words are taken from inside its commentary’s brackets, and a mas’ala begins where they open a new ruling («وإن», «ولو», «ويجب»); every word checked by machine to be in its place, not every row read.	8	23,496
from al-Hidaya’s quotes	Cut by rule: a mas’ala begins where its author begins quoting it in his own commentary on it, al-Hidaya; every word checked by machine, not every row read.	1	5,700
verse by verse	Cut by rule: each verse of the poem (or half verse) is one mas’ala; every word checked by machine to be in its place, not every row read.	6	10,355
question by question	Cut by rule: a mas’ala begins at each question the book numbers, with its answer up to the next number; every word checked by machine, not every row read.	2	1,731

The commentaries

A commentary is tied to its text by the text’s words it prints in brackets, so its words show under the mas’ala they explain. The masa’il a commentary adds are numbered through it. The table gives how much of each text’s words were found in its commentary.

Commentary	On	Rows	Adds	Text’s words found
شرح الزركشي على مختصر الخرقي	مختصر الخرقي	14,760	8,176	100.0%
الثمر الداني شرح رسالة ابن أبي زيد	الرسالة	2,544	1,674	100.0%
فتح المعين بشرح قرة العين	قرة العين بمهمات الدين	4,826	1,885	100.0%
المجموع شرح المهذب	المهذب	26,332	12,774	100.0%
المنح الشافيات بشرح مفردات الإمام أحمد	منظومة مفردات الإمام أحمد	2,748	1,441	100.0%
فتح العزيز بشرح الوجيز	الوجيز	10,595	8,428	100.0%
المبدع في شرح المقنع	المقنع	37,446	26,033	100.0%
الدر المختار	تنوير الأبصار	11,316	5,642	100.0%
فتح الوهاب بشرح منهج الطلاب	منهج الطلاب	5,546	2,164	99.9%
الاختيار لتعليل المختار	المختار للفتوى	12,969	8,001	99.8%
الإقناع في حل ألفاظ أبي شجاع	متن أبي شجاع (غاية الاختصار)	4,076	3,207	99.7%
الروض الندي شرح كافي المبتدي	كافي المبتدي	5,270	3,074	99.5%
حاشية الدسوقي	مختصر خليل	47,613	15,434	97.9%
منحة الخالق	كنز الدقائق	18,063	8,394	97.9%
حاشية الشبراملسي	منهاج الطالبين	48,452	11,458	97.4%
الشرح الكبير	مختصر خليل	18,657	5,596	97.1%
رد المحتار	تنوير الأبصار	84,559	40,627	97.1%
حاشية العدوي	مختصر خليل	43,523	13,656	96.7%
حاشية عميرة	منهاج الطالبين	12,894	3,593	96.5%
حاشية قليوبي	منهاج الطالبين	30,069	10,341	96.3%
مغني المحتاج	منهاج الطالبين	46,835	31,234	96.2%
حاشية الرشيدي	منهاج الطالبين	12,278	2,640	95.9%
تحفة المحتاج	منهاج الطالبين	24,807	12,330	95.8%
نهاية المحتاج	منهاج الطالبين	32,242	18,186	95.5%
شرح منتهى الإرادات	منتهى الإرادات	21,348	6,778	95.4%
تبيين الحقائق	كنز الدقائق	21,787	13,539	95.2%
الهداية	بداية المبتدي	10,872	4,825	94.9%
كنز الراغبين	منهاج الطالبين	14,525	5,169	94.9%
حاشية الشرواني	منهاج الطالبين	123,535	24,149	94.9%
حاشية ابن قاسم العبادي	منهاج الطالبين	26,921	8,658	94.3%
منح الجليل	مختصر خليل	44,464	23,623	92.6%
الروض المربع	زاد المستقنع	6,280	2,505	92.4%
حاشية الشلبي	كنز الدقائق	23,362	9,722	91.8%
اللباب في شرح الكتاب	مختصر القدوري	10,169	5,357	91.4%
شرح الخرشي	مختصر خليل	22,187	12,118	91.0%
مطالب أولي النهى	غاية المنتهى	34,861	14,381	89.6%
كشاف القناع	الإقناع	41,892	13,374	89.4%
معونة أولي النهى	منتهى الإرادات	47,315	19,762	89.2%
البحر الرائق	كنز الدقائق	47,899	33,304	89.1%
التاج والإكليل	مختصر خليل	28,243	13,770	87.8%
إعانة الطالبين	قرة العين بمهمات الدين	54,749	13,729	87.0%
فتح القريب المجيب في شرح ألفاظ التقريب	متن أبي شجاع (غاية الاختصار)	1,665	878	86.5%
النجم الوهاج	منهاج الطالبين	60,154	31,312	86.2%
الجوهرة النيرة	مختصر القدوري	11,685	7,345	85.7%
حاشية الروض المربع	زاد المستقنع	14,822	7,030	85.4%
الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع	زاد المستقنع	48,377	24,953	78.3%
المغني	مختصر الخرقي	61,317	46,153	77.8%
الشرح الكبير على المقنع	المقنع	54,239	40,085	77.2%
مراقي الفلاح شرح نور الإيضاح	نور الإيضاح	2,624	647	77.2%
الممتع في شرح المقنع	المقنع	27,308	17,474	73.1%
لوامع الدرر في هتك أستار المختصر	مختصر خليل	94,956	77,081	64.9%
النهر الفائق	كنز الدقائق	15,957	10,619	47.2%
الإنصاف	المقنع	60,964	42,923	46.3%
مواهب الجليل	مختصر خليل	46,357	32,202	39.1%
حاشية الخلوتي على المنتهى	منتهى الإرادات	14,369	3,812	17.8%

The map

Each chapter of the books is placed in a topic of fiqh by its own name in its book; one whose name says nothing stays with the chapter before it. The map holds 629,640 of 630,394 masa’il; the rest are the books’ prefaces, indexes and chapters that do not name their subject.

The topics in each field follow their order in the four base texts, al-Quduri, Khalil, al-Minhaj and Zad al-Mustaqni’, and no single school’s book is the frame. When you choose your school, they follow its text.

Comparing

In each topic every school’s text from its own books is shown under its own chapter names, side by side, with each mas’ala’s commentaries under it; then what the ten books of comparative fiqh say on that topic, in their words with their pages. We match no ruling to another: the reader sees each school’s text and compares.

The schools’ words on the session option are quoted from their books with their pages on Shamela; the verse is from the Tanzil text, unmodified; the hadith from their collections with their numbers. We write no answer of our own: a short answer is the base text’s own words.

The ayat in the texts

An ayah a mas’ala or a commentary quotes in its words is marked in the Qur’an’s colour and opens its page in the Qur’an app. 38,530 quoted ayat were found in the app’s texts.

My school

When you choose your school it comes first in comparing, on the map and in the school’s path; no text changes. The choice stays on your device only.

Not a fatwa

What is here shows what the schools’ books say; it is not a fatwa on any case. No school is ranked above another.