Âlâ? al-Din as- Samarqandî and preferences in mazhab in the work of his named Tuhfatu'l-Fuqahâ

The work of Âlâ? al-Din as- Samarqandî named ?Tuhfatu'l-fuqahâ? is one of the important works of the school of Hanafî. The work consists of a number of examples of the preference which appeared as one of the methods of inference after the formation of the schools of law. Besides the work has an understandable and fluent style.Samarqandî, used mainly the expression of ?ve hüve?s-sahîhu? and ?ve hüve?l-esahhu? in addition to various expressions of preferences in the exampeles of preferences in his book. However the opinions of Abu Hanîfa, Abu Yusuf and the Imam Muhammad as well as a number of Hanafî lawyer?s opinons were given place in this book. But He prefered generally the opinons of the leader of three schools. He embraced opinions of different leaders only in five matters.The school of Maturidî which is adopted as a school of thought bye the majority of adherent of Hanafî today, arose firstly at the Transoxiana region in the city of Samarqand. EbûMansur al Mâturîdî who is the founder of the school of Maturidî was not considered so much at his time. But after several centuries his dead the adherents of him, members of the school of Samarqand Hanafî, revived his school. Beside the Maturidî, Âlâ` al-Din was the one of the conributing person to revive the school of Samarqandî.It is clear that Âlâ? al-Dîn as-Samarqandî who is one of the leading representatives of the school of Samarqand Hanafî, gived place opinions of his school in his book named Mizanû?l-usûl and defended them. But it was tried to bring up with this study how opinions of his school effect Samarqandî?s thinking about the methodology of Fıqh. In this connection, with the investigating on conclusions of the confrontations, the effects of the points of the school of Samarqandî on the late Hanafî Fıqh is tried to establish.