In a 4 volume set, an early work of Hanbali Madhhab, by Muhammad Ibn Muflih al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (710/1310 - 763/1362), a leading authority in Hanbali Law, schooled by Ibn Taymiyah and other prominent Hanbali scholars. This work contains many excerpts of Kitab al-Funun (Book of Sciences) of Ibn Aqil, which deals with a variety of subjects.