Najm al-Din al-Tufi

Najm ad-Dīn Abū r-Rabīʿ Sulaimān ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī at-Tūfī ( ) was a Hanbali scholar and student of Ibn Taymiyyah . He referred to ibn Taymiyyah as "our sheikh." Most of his scholarship deals with Islamic legal theory and theology. His writings did not attract a large following of Hanbalis, though his Mukhtasar al-Rawdah has been commented upon up to the 16th century. He is known for his writings on maṣlaḥa , in that averting harm is a general obligation which can only be set aside by a specific legal ruling, such as the hudud punishments. His theory on maṣlaḥa later influenced Islamic Modernism . Maṣlaḥah and the Purpose of the Law: Islamic Discourse on Legal Change from the 4th/10th to 8th/14th Century .

Najm ad-Dīn Abū r-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī aṭ-Ṭūfī ( ) was a Hanbali scholar and student of Ibn Taymiyyah . He referred to ibn Taymiyyah as "our sheikh." Most of his scholarship deals with Islamic legal theory and theology. His writings did not attract a large following of Hanbalis , though his Mukhtasar al-Rawdah has been commented upon up to the 16th century. He is known for his writings on maṣlaḥa , in that averting harm is a general obligation which can only be set aside by a specific legal ruling, such as the hudud punishments. His noteworthy legal theory on maṣlaḥa would later influence future Islamic reform movements, especially in the past century. Maṣlaḥah and the Purpose of the Law: Islamic Discourse on Legal Change from the 4th/10th to 8th/14th Century .