Manuscript Of Arkan Al-Salat: A Critical Edition, Annotated Transliteration And Analysis Of Fiqh Sources
The writing legacy in the science of fiqh among Muslim scholars was prompted in second century of Hijri since the emergence of fiqh schools. The influence of writing tradition in fiqh did not cease only in Arab world, but it also convinced Malay scholars to write books in their language. Since the 1...
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| Summary: | The writing legacy in the science of fiqh among Muslim scholars was prompted in second century of Hijri since the emergence of fiqh schools. The influence of writing tradition in fiqh did not cease only in Arab world, but it also convinced Malay scholars to write books in their language. Since the 17th century, there were many Malay religious books that have been produced in different fields of science including fiqh which was extracted and compiled from certain authentic Arabic books. The manuscript of Arkān al-Ṣalāt is one of the Malay treatises that could be found in Pusat Kebangsaan Manuskrip Melayu (National Centre for Malay Manuscripts), National Library of Malaysia. This manuscript contains a lot of fiqh problems related to prayer discussions and some taṣawwuf elements. The main purpose of this study is to examine the physical structure of the manuscript so that its condition could be recognised, Hence, the texts of the manuscript could be transliterated. The aim of analysis in this research is to identify the validity of the fiqh issues and to recognize the author’s thought. The method used in this research is qualitative which related to codicology study, philology study and content analysis. These aforementioned methods were utilized to identify the physical aspect of the manuscript and to analyse its content. The finding of this research indicates that some of these manuscripts are still in good condition and can be read. The content presents a very significant knowledge that beneficial to be studied. This manuscript shows a unique and interesting approach in discussing fiqh by integrating fiqh with taṣawwuf. Through this study, it is observed that this manuscript obviously presents a remarkable influence of taṣawwuf in the science of fiqh within the Malay scholars’ writings in which every of single rukn and syarṭ discussions was accompanied by taṣawwuf elements. In addition, this research found that this manuscript has a different approach in elaborating rukn and syarṭ by which it tends to posit niyyat (intention) and qiyām as a part of syarṭ. |
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