Radd al-Mukhtar ala ad-Dur al-Mukhtar is a book on Islamic Jurisprudence [Fiqh] by 18th century Islamic Scholar, Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Ameen ibn `Aabideen ash-Shaami

Ibn Abidin

Muhammad Amin ibn Abidin lived in the city of Damascus in Syria during the Ottoman era. He was the authority of the fiqh of the Hanafi madhhab . He was a state employee with the title of Amin al-fatwa. This meant that he was the mufti that people would go to when they had legal questions in...

. It means "The Answer to the Baffled" over "The Exquisite Pearl".
Radd al Mukhtar is a super commentary on Imam Ala' al-Din al-Haskafi's Islamic Jurisprudence book Durr al-Mukhtar fi sharh Tanweer al Absaar. It is widely considered as the central reference for fatwa in the Hanafi

Hanafi

The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...

 Madhab. The Indo-Pak scholars often refer to Ibn Abidin

Ibn Abidin

Muhammad Amin ibn Abidin lived in the city of Damascus in Syria during the Ottoman era. He was the authority of the fiqh of the Hanafi madhhab . He was a state employee with the title of Amin al-fatwa. This meant that he was the mufti that people would go to when they had legal questions in...

as "al-Shami" and to his Hashiya as "al-Shamiyya" or "Fatawa Shami".

This Voluminous work has been translated into different languages like Turkish and Urdu.

External links

• Dur al-Mukhtar Sharah Tanweer al-Absar