A Look at the Book Muntaqid al-Manāfī‘ fī Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-Nāfi‘

The book Muntaqid al-Manāfī‘ fī Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-Nāfi‘ is one of the scientific works of Mullā Ḥabībullāh Kāshānī in the domain of demonstrative jurisprudence, and is in fact a comprehensive interpretation of Muḥaqqiq Ḥillī‘s al-Mukhtaṣar al-Nāfi‘. In this book, Mullā Ḥabībullāh has only explicated the important jurisprudential issues that – according to him – face the Muslim seminarians through a simple language and a scholarly method. After stating the problem, quoting the words of Muḥaqqiq Ḥillī (may God have mercy on him), and presenting narrations from the Infallibles (a) and opinions from Muslim jurists, he extensively discusses his own grand ideas under the titles Tadhnīb (follow-up) or Tadhnībāt (follow-ups). The author of this article, first, presents a brief biography of the author of this book and his motivation for the composition of it. Then, he reviews the main topics of the book Muntaqid al-Manāfī‘ along with its qualities, content, and manuscript.