Books on Abrogation Written by Imam Al-Nahhas, Makki ibn Abi Talib, and Ibn al-Jawzi : A Comparative Study in Content and Methodology = کتب الائمہ الثلاثة النحاس: ومکی بن ابی طالب وابن الجوزی فی النسخ دراسة مقارنة فی المنھج والمضمون

• Main Authors: Dr Amjad Hayat, Dr Shah Junaid Ahmad Hashimi
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Hazara University 2018-06-01
• Series: Hazara Islamicus
• Online Access: http://hazaraislamicus.hu.edu.pk/public/uploads/2018/Issue_1/12.12.pdf
• ISSN: 2305-3283; 2410-8065

Literal meaning of Naskh: Abrogation, replacement of one thing by another thing. Technical meaning: Lifting of law of Shari’ah by some other evidence of Shari’ah. Naasikh: That Ayat of the Qur’an which abrogates either recitation or command or both of some other Ayat of the Qur’an. Mansookh: That Ayat of the Qur’an which is abrogated. Al-Qur’an says: “None of Our revelations do we abrogate or cancel to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar. Knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things.” (2:106) From the earliest days, scholars have written about Naskh. Among them were Qatada bin Da'ama al-Sadousi, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn Salam, Abu Dawood al-Sijistani, Abu Jaafar al-Nahhas, Wahba Allah ibn Salama al-Dareer, Ibn al-Arabi, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn al-Anbari. In his index, Ibn al Nadim (d.380/990) has listed 17 books on the subject that were available at his time. The Daoudi lists in his book: Tabaqatul Mufassireen names of thirty-four books in the science of abrogation, but most of those books are missing today. Many scholars wrote special books about abrogation in the Quran. The important ones amongst them include: Abu Ja’far al-Nahhās (d. 949), Kitāb al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh Makkī b. Abū Tālib al-Qaisī (d. 1045) al-Īdāh li-nāsikh al-Qur'ān wa-mansūkhihi Ibn Al-Jawzī (d. 597), Nawāsikh al-Qur-ān This article aims to analyze the contents of the above mentioned books and to discuss the critical methodology of the authors in these books of al- nasikh wal mansookh.