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The Book of Bostan al-Arifeen - by Abu al-Layth Nasr bin Muhammad al-Samarqandi al-Hanafi, who died in the year: 373 AH

About the book What the author mentioned in his introduction:

(The jurist said) Abu al-Layth al-Zahid Nasr bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Samarqandi, may God Almighty have mercy on him:

I have collected in this book from the arts of knowledge that cannot be ignored or neglected by the private and the general, and I have extracted that from many books, and I have mentioned in it what is clearer to the one looking at it and the one who desires it, and I have explained the arguments for what he needs from the argument in the book, news, consideration and traces, and left the ambiguities of speech, The isnads of hadiths have been omitted in order to ease those who desire it, to facilitate the diligent ones, and to seek the benefit of the people.

Content:

In seeking knowledge

in writing science

In the fatwa

Who is entitled to a fatwa?

of difference

In the novel of the hadith with meaning

In the novel of hadith and leave

In taking knowledge from trustworthy

Permissibility of the homily council

In masculine etiquette

In the etiquette of listeners

In the pursuit of knowledge and the preference of jurisprudence over others

In the science debate

In the etiquette of the learner

In accepting the judiciary and not accepting it

In the etiquette of the judge

On the merits of learning and teaching the Qur’an

In the interpretation of the Seven Mathani

What was revealed from the Qur’an in Makkah and Madinah?

Speaking in Surah Bara'ah

On the Prophet ﷺ’s recitation of the Qur’an to Ubayy bin Ka’b

In poetry and chanting

What was said in the poems of the Prophet ﷺ

In the words of the vision

In good vision and good speech

In talking about medicine and sophistication

In foods that contain medicine

Preferring the Arabic tongue over others

In the revelation of the Qur’an on seven letters

Speaking in the interpretation of the Qur'an

In good cohabitation and knowledge of rights

On a visit to the Brotherhood

in delivery

In delivery to boys

In surrendering to the people of dhimma

On delivery when entering the house

What is desirable from the dress?

in beauty

What clothes may be worn and what is not

In the flag in the dress

In brocade bedding

In wearing blush

in the skins of beasts

in eating meat

In eating the model

What is mentioned in foods?

to eat garlic

What was said in virility

What was said in the mind

in literature

In the etiquette of ablution and prayer

In sleep etiquette

in eating etiquette

What is mentioned in foods?

in hospitality etiquette

in the interstitial

In drinking etiquette

In forwarding the right to the left

In getting out of the house and company

in buying and selling

in obedience to the rulers

In the taking of the princes

Forbidding to look at someone else's house

In the prohibition of being accused

in companionship

In the grace of the stick

In the demise of the world for the believer

in the hour mark

as far as words

Forbidden to take pictures

In the marriage of an adulteress

Preferring the poor over the rich

in debt

in isolation

In saying about the torment of the dead by the crying of his family

crying over the dead

In honoring the people of merit and honour

in jealousy

What came in generosity and miserliness

in intercession

in premeditated murder

In the kiss of the little boy

in hitting the tambourine

In the matter of favor

in marriage

in earning

In Medicine

Abstaining from food and other things that harm the body

in intercourse

entering the bathroom

in cupping

In the etiquette of emptiness

in loneliness

What was mentioned in the memorial

in killing locusts

In the inscription of the mosque

In hate spit in the mosque

In hating a man's prayer while he is sleepy

In science and literature

in the ring

In engraving the ring and writing on it

In opposition to speech

in the message

What was said in jest?

in benefits

In a woman if she has two husbands in this world

In saying about the children of the polytheists

In remembrance of the prophets, peace be upon them

In the description of what God Almighty created of creation

At the beginning of the creation of the heavens and the earth

In the names of heaven and fire

In the ratio of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his children and wives

In the names of the caliphs after the Prophet ﷺ

What are the preferred names?

In remembrance of days and months

In the nature of human beings

In swimming, equestrian and throwing

Forbidding to own a dog

In speaking about the matter of metamorphosis

in faith

Is faith increasing or not?

Is faith an act or an affirmation?

Is faith created or not?

Speaking in the Qur'an

In speech, in vision

In saying about the Companions

In saying in destiny

in rejection

Whoever attended the dinner and the prayer was held

In the hatred of entering his family from traveling at night

In prayer on a journey in the rain

In hate the bell

in condolence

in the competition

in scattering sugar

In the gift and its reward

in the sneeze

in the politeness of people

in proverbs

In architecture and construction

In dealing with infidels

What was said in the blessing of lunch

In the words of the wise

in the urine in case of doing

in animal castration

In the summer after dinner

In the number of surahs of the Qur’an

In the number of verses and words of the Qur’an

In the number of letters of the Qur'an

In the remembrance of the thirds, quarters and half of the Qur’an

In the grace of teachers

in lack of food

Greetings

What was said in the marriage

At the beginning of the command of the Prophet ﷺ

On the migration of the Prophet ﷺ

In Remembrance of the Maghazis of the Prophet ﷺ

what he hates

in invitations