Volume One
Introduction
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Al-Kāfī on the Jurisprudence of the People of Medina
Author: Abū ʿUmar Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Barr al-Qurṭubī
Opening Sermon of the Book
In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. May Allah bless our master and patron Muhammad, his family, and his Companions, and grant them abundant peace.
The "Shaykh," the jurist and ḥadīth-memorizer Abū ʿUmar [Yūsuf] ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr al-Numarī—may Allah have mercy on him—said:
All praise belongs to Allah, the Guardian of every blessing and the Remover of every distress, who has prescribed mercy for Himself [and made this community a middle nation]. He has bestowed upon us faith, numbered us among its people, guided us to Islam, taught us its laws, and preferred us