Ibn Rajab’s essay The Refutation of Those Who Follow Other Than The Four Schools advocates for the necessity of following Islamic legal scholarship in general, and legal scholarship in particular. A large portion of the essay covers the history of the development of Islamic scholarship and how the Muslim Community came to recognize scholars as the source for authoritative knowledge. Readers of the essay will notice that Ibn Rajab is engaging with individuals who saw themselves as equal or superior to prior generations of scholars, free to cast aside scholarship and to reinterpret without any need for requisite skills and knowledge. Although written seven centuries ago, it might as well have written with today’s reformers in mind.

Here is a lucid exposition of the basic issues of taqlid and ijtihad with answers to routinely raised questions. The approach is academic and non-confrontational. A must read if you want to understand this sometimes hotly debated issue.

A collection of treatises concerning Taqleed, and other issues of contention between the Ahl al-Hadith and those who follow one of the four great Imams.

Part 1 Includes:

• Hanafi Fiqh
• Qiyas
• 256 Questions
• Why Follow One Imam Of Fiqh
• Taqleed Made Easy
• Necessity For Taqleed

Part 2 Includes:

• Selected portions of Mawlana Anwar Qureshi’s Hadith and the Ahl al-Hadith
• Women And The Masjid
• Where Do Pious Women Perform Salah
• Various Fatwas from Fatawa Rahimiyyah

Part 3 Includes:  

• Taqleed in The Light of Quraan and Sunnat
• Tajaliat-e-Safdaat 
• Debate With Peer Badr-ud-Din
• British and The Ahle Hadith
• Isaale Thawaab