This translation covers the ritual and family law sections, amounting to about 40% of the original work. A new English translation of the original Arabic text by Dr Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, translated from its original Arabic text with introduction, commentary and notes was published by in 2006.Charles Hamilton's 1791 translation into English, which was made from a Persian translation rather than from the original Arabic text.The Persian translation was re-published twice in India, once in Calcutta and later in 1874 in Lucknow.

The translation was commissioned by Charles Hamilton, which he used to translate it later into English. Translations Persian ДЄl-Hidaya was translated into Persian in 1776 by a group of Muslim scholars in Bengal, India. This served to accomplish two goals, which had been long pursued by the British in India: firstly, it limited the judicial discretion of the qadis and the influence of muftis in the sharia system, reducing their earlier role as 'middlemen' between the Islamic legal tradition and the colonial administration and, secondly, it replaced the interpretative mechanisms of fiqh by those of English law. The translation enabled British colonial judges to adjudicate in the name of sharia, which amounted to an unprecedented codification of Hanafi law, severed from its Arabic-language interpretative tradition. In the late 18th century, William Jones commissioned its translation into Persian, and this version was used by Charles Hamilton to produce an English translation. Since the Hanafite school was predominant on the Indian sub-continent, the book was influential there as a substrate for commentaries, and - supplemented by professorial exposition - as a textbook for law colleges ( madrasas). Дuring the era of British colonial rule in South Asia, al-Hidayah played a central role in the development of the amalgam of Islamic and British law known as Anglo-Muhammadan law. Thus, it constituted not a statement of the law in itself, but rather an interpretative framework for elaboration of jurisprudence in different times and places. The significance of al-Hidayah in the Hanafite school lay not in its intrinsic virtues, but in its role as an authoritative and convenient basis for further commentaries.

Al-Hidayah is a concise commentary on al-Marghinani's own compendium al-Bidayat al-mubtadi, which was in turn based on Mukhtasar by al-Quduri and al-Shaybani's al-JamiвЂ al-saghir. The author, Shaykh al-Islam Burhan al-Din al-Farghani al-Marghinani (d.593AH/1197CE), was considered to be one of the most esteemed jurists of the Hanafite school.

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