How the Corpus Was Gathered: The Registers of Deoband and Mazahir — and the Lost Kanpur Ones

Answer

After permission was given, the special fatwas were copied out of Hazrat Wala’s ﵋ register; then some copies from the Kanpur period came to hand, and these too were copied. And when they had been copied, the thought pressed itself: why confine ourselves to these special fatwas alone, when all of Hazrat Wala’s ﵋ fatwas are supremely important, immensely useful to layman and…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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