Al-Kafi fi Fiqh al-Imam Ahmad

الكافي في فقه الإمام أحمد

By Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi 620h (1223 CE) 5 volumes

A comprehensive yet accessible Hanbali fiqh manual by the author of al-Mughni. While al-Mughni is encyclopedic and comparative, al-Kafi focuses on presenting the Hanbali school's positions clearly with their evidence from Quran and Sunnah. It serves as a middle-level text between the brief al-Umdah and the exhaustive al-Mughni, making it ideal for intermediate students of Hanbali jurisprudence.