Al Hizbul Azam - Sheikh Muhammad al Qari 

About The Book  

This is a one of most popular works by author "Al-Hizbul Azam" (collection of prayers), taken from the Qur'aan and the Hadith, called Hizb-ul-Azam. 
The collection is divided into seven chapters, giving one chapter for each day of the week. 
The Author "Mullah Ali Qari" has said in his preface that if you read this compilation daily, it is very good. If that is not possible, then it should be read weekly, or monthly, or even once a year; and if even that is not possible then at least once in a lifetime. 
The Author has gathered together Prayers from Authentic Hadith and other famous classical works such as Hisn-e-Haseen (Juzuri), Al Azkaar (Nawawi), Al Kalim Ut Tayyib, Al-Jaame'en and ad-Durr (Imam Suyuti) and Al Qol ul Badi (Sakhavi).  

About The Author  

'Ali ibn Sultaan Muhammad al-Qari (d.1014/1605), popularly known as Mullah 'Ali al-Qari was born in Herat, Iran, where he received his basic Islamic education. 
Thereafter, he travelled to Makkah al-Mukarramah and studied under the celebrated scholar Shaykh Ahmad ibn Hajar Haythami Makki. 
Mullah 'Ali al-Qari eventually decided to remain in Makkah al-Mukarramah where he taught, died and was laid to rest. 
One of the great Hanafi masters of hadith and Imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf,. 
He authored several great commentaries such as al-Mirqat on Mishkat al-masabih in several volumes, a two-volume commentary on Qadi `Iyad's al-Shifa', and a two-volume commentary on Ghazali's abridgement of the Ihya entitled `Ayn al-`ilm wa zayn al-hilm (The spring of knowledge and the adornment of understanding).