About the book

«From Ruling to Practice» is a book of applied fiqh on the Hanafi, Maliki and Shafiʿi schools, the sister of «From Evidence to Ruling» on usul al-fiqh. The reader first chooses a school and reads each chapter on that school alone; the other two schools appear, folded until asked for, where the schools part, so that the reader knows the question has another answer and why it was given.

Each chapter is met three times, following Ibn Khaldun's advice on teaching in the Muqaddima: the core text, short numbered propositions on the reader's school alone; then the commentary, with the conditions and reasons of the rulings, the chapter's governing rules, the distinctions, and where the three schools part and why; then a pass of verification for the intermediate student.

Every ruling attributed to a school has an entry in the ledger: its wording, the relied-upon book it was taken from, the place in that book, and its verification status. Its wording was read in place, then checked by a second reviewer against the same source; what the books did not settle was left out. Every correction made after publication is recorded, with its date, in the corrections log.

The book teaches the rulings of each chapter on the schools; a fatwa on an actual case looks at the person and the circumstances. Anyone facing such a case in worship, dealings or family matters should ask those who give fatwas where they live.