The poem (al-Adab al-Shar’iyyah) was written by the Palestinian Hanbali scholar Ibn ‘Abdi-l Qawi (r) [d. 699 AH]. This is not the book by Ibn Muflih (r) which also has the same title.
He was a student of Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi (r).
From his own students who studied the Arabic language under him was Shaykhu-l Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (r). Al-Dahabi also studied under him and took Ijaza from him.
Al-Saffarini (r) described him as the Sibawayh of his time.
He authored many works. Being a grammarian and a linguist, one of the works he produced was this poem based on Hanbali Fiqh, as was the practice of our scholars (and still is) to write legal issues in poetry to ease memorisation. We say “based on Hanbali Fiqh” because this isn’t exactly a legal text book in that sense, rather the author brings forth issues that don’t really “fit into” legal text books and their chapters, or those that aren’t usually mentioned or discussed therein.
The book below is a beautiful commentary on this poem by one of the major scholars of the later Hanbalis, Sharaf al-Din Abu-n Naja Musa al-Hajjawi (r), the author of al-Iqna’ and Zad al-Mustaqni’.
Al-Hajjawi (r) says something which really reflects his humility despite being one of the pillars of the Madhhab, he says:
“This is a small poem which is easy to memorise and understand for beginners, like myself, and it contains many benefits, legal issues, and (other) gems.”
May Allah have mercy on our scholars.
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