Works highlighting the differences between Imam Ibn Hajar and Imam al-Ramli

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There are a few works that are solely dedicated to illustrating the differences between Imams Ibn Hajar and al-Ramli.

One of these works is BaSabrayn's Ithmid al-'Aynayn. The author was a student of Sheikh Sa'id Ba'Ishn, author of Bushra al-Karim, and He basically noted down all of the points of difference between Ibn Hajar, Ramli and other Muta'khirin that his teacher mentioned in Bushra (a commentary of Bafadl's Muqaddimat al-Hadramiyyah). This text is a useful tool if one wants to see a point of Khilaf but doesn't want to spend extra lengths of time searching through the 500 + pages which is Bushra.

The downside to the Ithmid is that it only covers the differences related to the sections of worship, this is due to the fact that he drew from his teacher's commentary dealing in Fiqh al-'Ibadat alone.

Dar al-Fikr prints this work on it's own while most prints of Sayyid Mashhur's Bughyat al-Mustarshidin will include it in it's glosses.

The next work is more advantageous than the previous work, in which the author is said to be very meticulous. The work is entitled al-Manhal al-Nadhakh, by the Kurdish 'Alim 'Umar ibn al-Qaradhaghi

It covers all chapters of Fiqh and is said to be very useful. The work doesn't confine itself to the differences between the two Sheikhs alone. This work is printed by Dar al-Basha'ir.


Another work is Fath al-'Aliy by the Faqih, 'Umar BaFaraj. This work seems to confine itself to the Khilaf between Ibn Hajar and Ramli. It has explanatory notes by Sheikh Hasan Hitou's daughter and is published by Dar al-Minhaj.