Fadhil Miqdad

He was from Hilla, studied from Shaheed Awwal. He died in 826 A.H., therefore is known to be among the Fuqaha of the ninth century Hijra. The most important book on Fiqh written by him is Kanz al-Irfan, in which he has compiled all those verses of the Holy Quran which form the basis of Fiqh, and had deduced from them several rules of Islamic jurisprudence. Of course, there exist several books by Shia as well as Sunni scholars written in the same vein but 'Kanz al-Irfan' stands out prominently as one of the best, if not the best.