Al-Mabsut

Al-Mabsut (Arabic: المبسوط) is an 11th-century classical Hanafi legal text written by al-Sarakhsi. It covers the fundamental principles of the Hanafi school and serves as a commentary on Al-Kafi by Hakim al-Shahid, which was itself based mainly on the six canonical works of Muhammad al-Shaybani, a student of Abu Hanifa. Al-Sarakhsi composed the work largely during his imprisonment. As he had no access to books or references, his students would read al-Kafi aloud to him, and he would explain and expand upon it from memory. His students recorded his dictations, which became the text of al-Mabsut. It virtually became the chief text of the Hanafi school.