Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani Quotes

Burhān al-Dīn Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. He was born in Marghinan near Farghana . He died in 1197 . He is best known as the author of al-Hidayah, which is considered to be one of the most influential compendia of Hanafi jurisprudence . Wikipedia

✵ 1117 – 29. October 1197

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Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani Quotes

“Whoredom and bastardy are defects with regard to a female slave, but not with regard to a male ; because the object in the purchase of female slave, is cohabitation and the generation of children...”

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani

Al-Hidayah (593 AH, 1197 CE), Charles Hamilton's translation, 1791
Source: Hidayah (Muslim law book), Hamilton, II, 409. https://archive.org/details/TheHedayaCommentaryOnIslamicLawsByShyakhBurhanuddinAbuBakrAlMarghinani/page/n249/mode/1up (Also quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Ch. 11)

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