The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c6.s7.6

c6.s7.6

The Quran and the Hadis provided the foundation upon which theology and law of Islam were raised. Law in Islam is more intimately related to religion than to jurisprudence as modern lawyers understand it.⁶¹ Named after their founders Abu Hanifa (C. 699-767), Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Idris (C. 767-820), Ahmad bin Hanbal (C. 780-855) and Malik bin Anas (C. 715-795) - the four *mazahib* or schools of Islamic law named Hanafi, Shafai, Hanbali and Malaki respectively, too had come into being in the eighth-ninth century. Their compilation is called Hidaya. If at all anything was wanting with regard to Muslim law, it was provided by *Hidaya* or Guidance.⁶² The *Hidaya* is a voluminous treatise based on Sunni law composed by Shaikh Burhanuddin Ali who was born at Marghinan in Transoxiana about 530 H. and died in 593 H. (1135-1196).⁶³