Umdat Al Salik ( Reliance Of The Traveler)
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Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik ( Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper , also commonly known by its shorter title Reliance of the Traveller ) [1] [2] is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence . The author of the main text is 14th-century scholar Shihabuddin Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn an-Naqib al-Misri (AH 702-769 / AD 1302–1367). Al-Misri based his work on the previous Shafi'i works of Imam Nawawi and Imam Abu Ishaq as-Shirazi, following the order of Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab ( The Rarefaction ) and the conclusions of Nawawi's Minhaj at-Talibin ( The Seeker's Road ).