Urdu Fatawa Books

Please can you recommend some Urdu Fatāwā books that are in accordance with the Ḥanafī school of thought.

بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم

Answer:

The following is a list of some of the prominent Urdu Fatāwā books that are in accordance with the Ḥanafī school of thought:

1. Fatāwā ʿAzīzī – Shāh ʿAbd al-Azīz Muḥaddith Dehlawī (d. 1239/1824).
2. Majmūʿah Fatāwā – Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Laknawī (d. 1304/1886).
3. Fatāwā Rashīdiyyah and Bāqiyāt Fatāwā Rashīdiyyah – Mawlānā Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī (d. 1323/1905).
4. Fatāwā Khalīliyyah – Mawlānā Khalil Aḥmad Sahāranpūrī (d. 1346/1927).
5. Fatāwā Darul Uloom Deoband – Muftī ʿAzīz al-Raḥman ʿUthmānī (d. 1347/1928) and Mufti Muḥammad Shafīʿ ʿ Uthmānī (d. 1396/1976).
6. Imdād al-Fatāwā – Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī (d. 1362/1943).
7. Kifāyah al-Muftī – Mufti Kifāyatullāh Dehlawī (d. 1372/1952).
8. Khayr al-Fatāwā – Mawlānā Khayr Muḥammad Jālandarī (d. 1390/1970) and others.
9. Imdād al-Aḥkām – Mawlānā Ẓafar Aḥmad ʿUthmānī (d. 1394/1974).
10. Fatāwā Ḥaqqāniyyah – Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Haqqānī (d. 1409/1988) and others.
11. Fatāwā Maḥmūdiyyah – Mufti Maḥmūd Ḥasan Gangohī (d. 1417/1996).
12. Āp Key Masāʾil Awr Unkā Ḥal – Mawlānā Yūsuf Ludyānwī (d. 1421/2000).
13. Fatāwā Raḥimiyyah – Mufti ʿAbd al-Raḥim Lājpūrī (d. 1422/2001).
14. Aḥsan al-Fatāwā – Mufti Rashīd Aḥmad Ludyānwī (d. 1422/2002).
15. Fatāwā Farīdiyyah – Mufti Muḥammad Farīd (d. 1432/2011).
16. Fatāwā ʿUthmānī – Mufti Muḥammad Taqī ʿUthmānī (b. 1362/1943 – ).
17. Maḥmūd al-Fatāwā – Mufti Aḥmad Khānpūrī (b. 1365/1946 – ).
18. Fatāwā Darul Uloom Zakariyya – Mufti Raḍa al-Ḥaq (b. 1369-70/1950 – ).
19. Kitāb al-Fatāwā – Mawlānā Khālid Sayf Allah Raḥmānī (b. 1376/1956 – ).
20. Kitāb al-Nawāzil – Mufti Muḥammad Salmān Manṣūrpūrī (b. 1386/1967 – ).

Allah knows best

Yusuf Shabbir

22 Ṣafar 1438 / 22 November 2016