Critical edition of 'Abd al-Malik b. 'Alî al-Bâbî's "Muhtasarmimmâ leyse fi'r-Rawza wa'l- Minhâj" (Between Qadâ and Ummehât al-Awlâd)

The research deals with the investigation of a book from the traditional jurisprudential sources, which is: A summary of what is not in the kindergarten and the curriculum / from the book of judiciary to the book of mothers of children (a study and investigation), by the scholar Abd al-Malik bin Ali al-Halabi, who died (839/1436).The manuscript includes a set of jurisprudential books, namely the Judiciary Book, the Division Book, the Testimony Book, the Claim and Evidence Book, the Manumission Book, the Tadbeer Book, the Writing Book, and the Children's Mothers Book.The author divided these books into a group of branches and issues that he transferred from the sources of Shafi'i jurisprudence, and the author's approach was flexible in division, ease in language, and gradual in presenting opinions, as was his approach in reasoning based on the invocation of the Noble Qur'an, the honorable Sunnah of the Prophet, and consensus. The author was distinguished by his encyclopedic culture in comparison and inference, so he used to present more than one opinion of the opinions of the Shafi'i jurists, and contrast them with some of them, as he compared them with what was stated by the Malikis and Hanafis, and he sometimes presented his opinion and argued for it with the evidence that came, as he mentioned the doctrine of the imam Al-Shafi'i and his fatwa in the old and new.The researcher divided the research into three chapters: In the first chapter, he studied the author's personal and scientific life, so he mentioned his name, lineage, surname, year of birth, upbringing, elders, students, ethics, scholars' praise for him, and his scientific output. And the methodology of the investigation, and in the second section, the author's methodology and method of protesting, his sources, the advantages of the book and the criticisms of it, and in the third chapter he took care of the investigated text in terms of extracting the effects from the book and the Sunnah, books of jurisprudence, translation for the media, and clarifying strange words and terminology, then he concluded with a conclusion in which he explained the most important results.