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Usul ash-Shashi

Hanafi school Islamic jurisprudence book

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ16979442 ↗
Source-derived summary

Usul ash-Shashi (Arabic: أصول الشاشي, Uṣūl ash-Shāshī) is a text on usul al-fiqh (principles of Islamic jurisprudence) according to the Hanafi madhhab. It is studied as part of the Dars-i Nizami curriculum used in many Islamic seminaries, especially in South Asia. There is a debate over the identity of the work's author.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Usul ash-Shashi” as hanafi school Islamic jurisprudence book. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Usul, ash-Shashi and Hanafi can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as hanafi school Islamic jurisprudence book. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16979442. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Usul ash-Shashi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Usul ash-Shashi primary sources, Usul ash-Shashi archive and Usul research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Usul ash-Shashi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.