MUHAMMAD SALIH BIN UTHAIMIN (1929- 2001M) DAN MANHAJ FATWANYA

This article discusses the life and education of Muhammad Bin Salih al-Uthaimin. It also focuses on his fiqh methodology especially that which is streamlined with maqasid shari’ah and Islamic methodologies, based on the evidence (dalil) and legitimacy. The article also explains how the scholar is influenced by other notable past luminaries such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim and Ibn Baz. The author analyses al- Uthaimin’s religious edicts (fatwa) such as those that relate to the Muslims who do not pray, issues on hijab (covering faces and hands), the need to give out alms (zakat fitrah) in cash, and the need to give out alms on gold that are used as jewellery. Ibn Uthaimin’s methodology of fatwa follows Hanbali sect and it has been greatly influenced by his teachers such as Syeikh Abdul Rahman al-Sa’adi. It is found that he is closely identified with literal interpretation in understanding certain basis (nas) when dispensing his fatwa.