IslamIbn Qudamah's al-Mughni: the comparative fiqh encyclopedia scholars still rely on
The sixth-century-AH Hanbali scholar Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi built a step-by-step syllabus that culminates in al-Mughni, a work that sets the views and evidence of the major schools side by side and remains a standard reference in Islamic jurisprudence.