Fiqh al sunnah

5 volumes in 1 Single Combined Edition (Acts of worship) Includes Arabic Text for Qur’anic Verses
By As-Sayyid Sabiq
Translated By Muhammad Sa’eed Dabas & Jamal al-Din M. Zarabozo
Hard Back 5 Complete Volumes Bound into One Book  Appx: 734 Pages
Reviewer Ahmad Zaki Hammad
American Trust Publications, USA

Fiqh us-Sunnah : Islamic Legal Rulings Concerning the Sayings and Actions of the Prophet (pbuh) Book of Worship : (New 5 volumes in 1 Single Combined Edition) New Revised English Translation (Sayyid Sabiq)

Translated from the Arabic, this work is not based on a particular Madhab, the author gives opinions from the scholars other madhabs, judging each opinion on its own merits.

This edition is based on the original A.T.P. 5 volume (red burgundy individual volumes), but is budget printed & issues from Egypt.
The Revised Edition requested by Muhammad Sabiq the son of Shaikh Sayyid Sabiq

• All Five Volumes in One Book with one Table of Content
• New Transliteration System
• Arabic Text  in the Uthmani script has been included in the Dhikr Volume
• Appendix and  glossary

Sayyid Saabiq (1915-2000 C.E.) wrote the book in Arabic at the request of Imam Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Every Fiqh ruling in the book goes back to the Qur’an and Sunnah and Sabiq dealt with all four madhahib objectively, with no preferential treatment to any.

The Contents of the 5 Volumes in this Book
-Purification and Prayer
Purification
Ablution (Wudu’)
Ghusl, the complete ablution
Tayammum, the dry ablution
Menstruation
Prayer
Azhan, call to prayer
Prerequisites of the Prayer
Obligatory acts of prayer
Sunnah acts of prayer

-Supererogatory Prayer
Supererogatory Prayers
Nonstressed Sunnah Prayers (As-Sunan Ghair Al-Mu’akkadah)
The Witr Prayer
The Late Night Prayer, tahajjud (qiyam al-Layil)
The Special Prayers during the Month of Ramadan (Tarawih)
The Duha prayer
Salatul Istikharah
Salatul Tasbih
Salatul Hajah, the prayer for need
Salatul Taubah, the prayer of penitence
Salatul Kasuf, prayer of the solar and lunar eclipse
Salatul Istisqa, prayer for rain
The Prostration During the Qur’anic Recitation
The Prostration of Thankfulness (Sajdat ush-Shukr)
Prostrations of forgetfulness during the prayer

-Congregational Prayer
The Mosques
Places where offering prayer is prohibited
The Sutrah or partition in front of one who is praying
What is allowed during the prayer
Actions which are disliked during the prayer
Actions which invalidate the Salah
Making (Qada’) for missed salah
The prayer of a person who is ill (Salatul Marid)
The prayer during times of fear or danger (Salatul Khauf)
The prayer of a traveler
Combining two prayers
Salatul Jumu’ah (the Friday Prayer)
Id prayers (Salatul ‘Idain)

-Zakaat and Fasting
Zakah in Islamic Jurisprudence
Monetary holdings subject to zakah
Zakah on plants and fruit
Zakah on Animals
Zakah on Buried Treasure and Precious Minerals
Zakah on Wealth Extracted from the Sea
The Recipients of Zakah
Zakat ul-Fitr
Zakat ut-Tatawwu or Voluntary Sadaqah
Fasting (As-siyam)
The Fast of Ramadan
The Forbidden Days to Fast
Voluntary Fasts
The Manners of Fasting
Acts That are Permissible During the Fast
Actions that Void the Fast
Making Up Missed Days of Ramadan
Night of Qadr
I’tikaf or Seclusion in the Mosque

-Hajj and ‘Umrah
Pilgrimage: a general definition, its excellence and prerequisites
The ability to perform hajj – what does it imply?
The hajj of the Prophet (peace be upon him)
Mawaquit: Fixed Times and Places For Ihram
Ihram
Talbiyah
What is permitted to a Muhrim
Restrictions of Ihram
Killing a game in the state of Ihram
Sacred precincts of Makkah and Madinah (Haram Makkah wa Madinah)
Tawaf or Circumambulation around Ka’bah
Sa’i between Safa and Marwah
Staying at Mina and Arafat
Umrah

-Funerals and Dhikr
Sickness, Expiation of Sins
Contemplation of death and preparation for it by good deeds
Al-Kafan (The Shroud)
Funeral Prayers (Salatul Janazah)
Burial
Azh-zhikr (remembrance of Allah)
Supplications

About the Author
Sayyid Sabiq was born in 1915 in the Egyptian village, Istanha. He received his education at Al-Azhar and after his graduation worked as the Director of Mosques and Islamic Education in the Egyptian Islamic Affairs Ministry. He also taught at Al-Azhar, and later moved to Saudi Arabia, where he headed the Shari’a Graduate Studies Department in Um Al-Qura University. After moving back to Egypt, he spent years teaching students in a Mosque in Cairo.
Sayyid Sabiq was a noted Islamic activist. After writing Fiqh As-Sunnah, Sabiq spent some time fighting along with the Mujahideen in Palestine in the late 1940’s and he later visited most countries in the world and lectured in their mosques. He was the first graduate of Azhar to visit the Soviet Union and check on the conditions of Muslims there.