The major part of one of the best works on Mālikite law and jurisprudence according to the narrative of Saḥnūn Abū Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Tanūkhī, 240 [854]. According to Ibn Khallikan (I, p. 494), Saḥnūn received the contents of al-Mudawwanah from Ibn al-Qāsim. The first who undertook to draw up a Mudawwanah was the Mālikite doctor, Asad ibn al-Furāt, 213 [828/9]. It originally consisted of questions proposed by him to Ibn al-Qāsim with their solution by the latter; he then took them with him to al-Qayrawān, and Saḥnūn wrote them out under his direction; it was called the Asadīyah, but as the questions were without any order in this first sketch, Saḥnūn drew them up under separate headings and augmented their number. This present volume contains the books on (1) al-Ṣiyām wa-al-iʻtikāf, (2) al-ḥudūd fī al-qadhf, (3) al-ʻAtq.