This is a very important book by al-Imam Ash-Shawkani, in which he has compiled a concise textAd-Durar al-Bahiyyah fee al-Masaail al-Fiqhiyyahin which he outlined the most preponderant views in the matters of Fiqh based on authentic proofs and text-based reasoning. Shaykh Siddiq Hasan Khan described it as, "leaving out the opinions that are mere thoughts since they amount to the hear-says of it and without paying attention to those that became popular (of the opinions) since the truth alone deserves to be followed
