Is Majmoo Al Faqeeh the earliest book documenting Fiqh of a descendant of Ali ra. The book documents Fiqh of Imam Zaid Bin Ali, son of Imam ZainulAbidin and written by his student. Imam Zaid was born in 695 and died in his mid forties and thus guessing the time of authorship of this book would be like 750-770. This is much earlier than Ussol Al-Kafi written around 950.
Does anyone know about the book, if it has been translated in English or available anywhere?
It probably shud be in Yemen where most Zaidis are.
Sulaym ibn Qays was actually dead by 714. So he wrote his hadith book before … dying?!, that is, before Muwatta.
Historiography of early Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays; by Sulaym ibn Qays(death: 75-95 AH (694-714)). This is a collection of Hadith and historical reports from 1st Century of the Islamic calendar. Sulaym ibn Qays is the first Shia author in “al-Fihrist” of Ibn al-Nadim.
Interesting read on Zaydis:
“A Zaydi Revival”](http://www.aiys.org/webdate/hayk.html)
The revival was led by Huthi against the onslaught of Wahhabism in Zaydi areas.
good question ...i think the title needs to be changed to "islamic fiqah from a hashimite"
otherwise it seems as if hashimites formulated a somewhat nonmainstream fiqah ....
even though zaidi school of thought is widely accepted as mainstream muslims
OP - i sent u the details of urdu book i have on this topic if thats the one ur looking for let me know
I was thinking on how to name the thread, which does nto perfectly decribe what i am trying to say. The book is not written by Imam Zaid, so it cannot be called Fiqh book by a Hashemite, however, it is the first book based on Fiqh of descedents of Prophet pbuh.
It was written by AbuKhalid Amr bin Khalid a student of Imam Zaid.
