Islamic Legal maxims - Consisting of Al-Karkhi's Usul

Dar Ul Thaqafah The oldest collection of Legal Maxims that has reached to us is the Risalah ‘usul, al-Karkhi (260AH-340AH)  By deep study of these ‘usul it reveals that they are inclusive of qawa`id, dawabit, ‘usul, and kulliyat. Some of them have the status of such general kulliyat that can be declared as the collective asset of Islamic Fiqh and some ‘usul are such which may be useful in knowing the effective cause of Fiqhi values and to know the solution of Fiqhi problems according to the Hanafi way of proving a thing (istidlal) and the Hanafi style of logical deduction on a legal question (ijtihad) by a learned and   enlightened doctor (Mujtahid).  Imam al-Karkhi is the author of the first existing book on legal maxims. “…The style of Imam Karkhi is that he states the legal maxim in a small sentence while Imam Nasafi gives brief example. The principle and the example are so concise that a person who is not well-versed in Fiqh he is not in a position to easily get benefit of it. Her