محمد زاہد الکوثریؒ کی کتاب "اقوم المسالک فی بحث روایۃ مالکؒ عن ابی حنیفہ

A Scientific and Critical Study of Muhammad Zahidul Kausry's Book " The Establishment of Sects in the Discussions of the Traditions of Malik from Abu Hanifah and Vice Versa"

Abstract

  Muhammad Zahid Al-Kouthari (1296-1371 A.H) is a prominent Hanfi Scholar and jurist. He was a Great pleader for the Muslims in the ottoman caliphate. He I s a great Muhaddith. He spent his early years in Turkey and after the fall of ottoman caliphate first he moved to Alexendria then to Syria and then again to Cairo and stayed there till his death. He wrote many books on different topics relating to Islam. He contributed a lot to the different fields of Islamic sciences and philosophiec i.e Fiqh, Islamic, polemics (Ilmulkalam). However he is well known among the academic circles as scholar of Hadith. He wrote compiled and brought back into circulation many classed books of Fiqh, Hadith and Usool. Being a Muhadith he wrote a book named