Umdat al-Talib: The Seeker’s Mainstay

Volume 1 of ‘Umdat al-Talib, an authentic resource in compliance with the official canon, covers the chapters of worship in a masterfully crafted yet accessible manner. Accordingly, the scholar and expert of the school, Ibn Badran deemed that, “the Hanbalite instructor’s religious duty was to select either Akhsar al-Mukhtasarat/The Supreme Synopsis or al-‘Umdat/The Mainstay by Shaykh Mansur” as the manual to teach novice pupils.”