شرح الإعلام بحدود قواعد الإسلام

Sharḥ al-l'lâm bi Hudûd Qawa'id al-Islâm
lil-Qâḍi Abî al-Faḍl ‘lyâḍ Ibn Mûsa al-Yaḥşubî al-Sabtî (m. 544 H)
Imâm Abî al-'Abbâs Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qâsim al-Judhâmî known as al-Qabbâb al-Fâsî (m. 1377 / 778 H)
One of the characteristics of Malikite fiqh texts is that they are drawn up according to the levels and the needs of the readers and that is why short and easy works, for the use of pupils and beginners, are numerous. One of the most famous of these works is Kitâb al-l'lâm bi Hudûd Qawa'id al- Islâm, written by the undisputed 'allama of the Islamic West, the Imâm, the Faqih expert in Hadîth, al-Qâdî Abû al-Faḍl 'lyâḍ Ibn Mûsâ al-Yaḥṣubî al-Sabtî (d. 544 H). In this book he deals with what Muslims can't ignore in the matter of doctrine ('aqîda) and jurisprudence (figh), beginning with the pillars included in the hadith related by Ibn 'Umar and which we can find in the Sahiḥs of al-Bukhâri and Muslim: << Islam is based on five pillars: the testimony that there is no deity but God and that Muhammad is His messenger, the prayer, the legal alms (zakât), the pilgrimage and the fasting during the month of Ramadan ». He avoids in this book arduous issues, limiting his work to the content of the afore mentioned hadith, in an easy way, eluding arguments, naming the five pillars by the term "rules", stating a rule and enumerating the various aspects concerning it and then dealing with the next rule. We have to point out that the methodology of al-Qâdî 'lyâḍ doesn't differ much from that of his peers in the dealing with the different issues and in the differentiation between the duties and the forbidden acts.
Kitâb al-l'lâm interested many Malikite scholars who wrote studies and commentaries about it, among which the work of the scholarly imâm Abî al- 'Abbâs Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qâsim al-Judhâmî al-Fâsî known as al- Qabbâb (d. 778 H). The latter is one of the most important scholars of the Merinide epoch; al-Maqqarî declares in his work, Azhâr al-Riyâd, that he is the most eminent among them. He attended the court of the Merinide