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Religious sciences are the superior and topmost important sciences than the person should learn. Almighty God has provided some people to serve this religion (Islam) at any period of time to elucidate its rules for all human being. One of these people is Imam Abu Nasser Al-Sabagh, author of “Al-Shamel” (The comprehensive in Jurisprudence). Which is one of most important and best of Al-Shafia books.
The title of the present paper is “The Religious viewpoints of Imam Abi Nasser Ibn Al- Sabagh Al-Shafia' in Purity: A Juridical Comparative Study through the Book of Heliat Al-Ulama’ (Ornament of Scholars). Abu Nasser is an Iraqi scholar who was born in 400 B.C and studied at Al-Nedhamia school in Baghdad and died and buried there. He is one of Al-Shafia' scholars and is considered a prominent figure in this sect. He has certain religious viewpoint scattered in the most important books, the researcher has been very keen to collect them on a section specified for purity to look into them, compare them with other sects' followers and select the most plausible of these views depending on the power of evidence.
The most important results of the paper are:
1-Historians and genealogists did not differ at his surname and ancestry. He is Abu Nasser Abed Al-Saeed Bin Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahed Bin Ahmed Bin Tafer Al-Baghdadi.
2-Abu Nasser was born in Baghdad in 400 and lived in Dar Al-Maratib. He was the first to study at Al-Nedhamia school.
3- Abu Nasser has some publications such as; Comprehensive jurisprudence, The perfect in Dispute, Remembrance of the Scholar and the Right Path, Sufficient Answers for Questions, Waiting period according to Fundamentals of Jurisprudence for a Wife Whose Husband is Dead and the Legal Opinion.
4-It has been confirmed that any person having two dishes; one is pure and the second is impure, should spoil them and ablute with earth then do his prayers as worshippings are based on precaution.
5-It has been confirmed that the skin does become pure through drying by sun, it should be tanned.
6-It has been confirmed that order in ablution in not a must.
7-It has been confirmed that any person who becomes certain of excrement or purity but has doubt of which comes before the other should trace his state before these conditions. Should he have an excrement, he is now pure, but if he was pure, now he should have made an excrement.
8-It has be confirmed that guffaw does not turn a prayer but ablution imperfect.

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