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A NOTE ON MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE* THE source of all Islamic laws being the teachings of the holy Pro• phet, anything which has been definitely laid down therein and w~s agreed upon bythe majority of the Companions and their immedi• ate followers Taba'in should be regarded as an unquestionable item of the Islamic code; and all the four well-known Sunni schools of jurists unanimously accept them.
(b) The intent and purpose of the lawgiver in prohibiting wine was judged by the leading jurists as the prevention of the * (The following is a free translation of an Urdu article kindly written for '' Islamic Culture " by a well-known authority on Fiqh , The learned writer who acrved as Chicf Muf'ti in Tonk State for a long time, has lately come to Hyderabad in connection with the publlcatlon of his encyclopredic work on the biographies of the )fuslim authors in twelve volumes-a monument of patient labour and profound research, Editor, ·--····------ use of all intoxicants.
Two other writers of the Shafaite school, Shaik-ul-Islam 'Azizu'd-din 'Abdul 'Aziz and Badru'd-din better known as Zarakshi, also published valuable books on these principles, while sonic authors gave the subject a philosophic turn by inserting reasons and logical argu• ments.
Some doctors of law have compiled them for guidance and they are called the books of decrees, such as the collection of Abu Lai th Nasr bin Muhammad of Samar• qand, better known by the name of Imam-ul-Huda (d.