He was born in Palestine in 541 AH, where he became Hafidh of the Qur'an at an early age and moved to Baghdad where he stuidied under some established scholars such as Shaykh Abdul-Qadir in his final days (i.e. Muwaffaq al-Din 'Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali was a reputable scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of ''Al-Mughni', (the main Hanbali 'fiqh'' manual) as well as'Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin' (a summary of Ghazali's 'Ihya ulum ad-din') and ''Tahrim an-Nazar' ('Censure of Speculative Theology', an attack on Ibn_Aqil's rationalist views.
This book is for the advanced students of Hanbali Fiqh it aims at acquainting the student with the sources of the Law and the methodology for extrapolating rules from the revelation. Al-Mughni By Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi, Arabic Onlyīy Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Qudama al-MaqdisiĪla Mukhtasar : Abul al-Qasim Umar bin Husain bin Abdullah bin Ahmad Al-khirqiĪl Mughni by Imam Muwaffiq al-Din Ibn-Al-Qudama which is the Sharh of Mukhtasar of Abul al-Qasim Umar bin Husain bin Abdullah bin Ahmad Al-Khirqi.
