The Quenching Source [E-book]

The Quenching Source is a translation and annotation of Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari’s (d. 1014 AH) al-Mawrid al-Rawi fi Mawlid al-Nabi

The Quenching Source is a quintessential work on the Prophetic Nativity (Mawlid) covering:

• The basis for the Mawlid
• Examples of the Mawlid across history
• The ontological firstness of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace)
• The full lineage of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and what we know about his forefathers
• The precursors to the Prophetic birth
• The miracles that accompanied the birth
• The names of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace)
• The Prophet’s suckling and his wet-nurses (Allah bless him and give him peace)
• The beginning of revelation
• And more…

Biography of Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari

He is Shaykh ‘Ali b. Sultan Muhammad al-Qari, better known as Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari—“the reciter”—on account of his mastery of the variant Quranic readings (qira’at), and because he would write out one Quranic script (mushaf) each year in one of the readings and sell it and use the proceeds to provide for himself during his studies. He was born in Herat, Afghanistan, where he sought sacred knowledge as a young man. Thereafter, he traveled to Mecca and studied under some of the greatest luminaries of his time, including the great Shafi’i authority and hadith master Shaykh Ahmad b. Hajar al-Haytami and Qutb al-Din al-Hanafi.

Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari was a master of hadith, law, theology, variant Quranic readings, and other sciences. His famous works include a commentary on Qadi ‘Iyad’s al-Shifa, a commentary on al-Tibrizi’s hadith compilation Mishkat al-masabih, a commentary on Imam al-Ghazali’s abridgement of his Ihya’ ‘ulum al-din, a three volume exegesis of the Quran, a commentary on Imam al-Jazari’s prayer manual al-Hisn al-hasin, a biography of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, a compendium of hadith forgeries, a commentary on Imam Abu Hanifa’s theological tract al-Fiqh al-akbar, a commentary on the Burda Ode of Imam al-Busiri, a commentary on Imam al-Tirmidhi’s Shama’il, this work al-Mawrid al-rawi fi Mawlid al-Nabi, and several other works, many of which are still in manuscript form.

He continued to live, write, and teach in Mecca, and died there in the year 1014 AH/1606 CE—Allah have mercy upon him.