مولانا احمد رضا خان بحیثیت مفتی: ایک تجزیاتی مطالعہ

Mulānā Ahmad Raza Khan as a Muftī: An Analytical Study

Abstract

Fatwā is a non-binding Islamic legal theory which a competent Muslim scholar issues upon when asked about a particular question. It is the Muftī who at the same time does struggle to extract the shari‘ah ruling for a newly faced problem and then issues the fatwa. Ahmad Raza Khan, the founder of Bralvi main stream, a renounced leading Islamic scholar, is one of those Hanfī scholars who promoted hanfī fiqh in Subcontinent. His book of fatwā comprises of mostly chapters of fiqh , the reader of  his Ftāwā  finds the author  holding all the qualities of a mufti. This study finds out that the methodology of issuing fatwa of Ahmad Radha Khan puts him in the list of great fuqha and his book is having the status of enpsychlopedia of hanfī fiqh. The ftāwās of the author have been highly appreciated in and outside the country; besides the Muslim scholars the law court also considers it decisive.