A SUMMARY OF IsLAMic JURISPRUDENCE Dr. Salih Al-Fawzan be emt a CE eo DR ReIn the Name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful CONTENTS English Islamic Library... Editorial Staff... Acknowledgement.. Translator’s Preface....... Introduction. ITRADE TRANSACTIONS Chapter 1 Trade Transactions... Chapter 2 Prohibited Trade Transactions... Chapter 3 Trade Transactions Conditions. Chapter 4 Option in Trade Transactions. so Chapter 5 Disposal of a Purchased Commodity before Receipt and Reseinding of Bargains. Chapter6 — Riba. Chapter7 — Selling Assets....... Chapter 8 _ Selling Fruits. Chapter9 — Blighted Fruits: Rulings... Chapter 10 The Salam (Sale of Payment in Advance)... Chapter 11 Loaning and Loans,, Chapter 12 Morigage......... Chapter 13. Guarantee... Chapter 14 Suretyship (Kafalah). Chapter 15 Hawilah (‘Transference of Debts)...CONTENTS Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 ‘Commissioning (Wakélah).. Interdiction.... Conciliation... Neighborhood and Roadways.. Preemption... I PARTNERSHIP Chapter I Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Kinds of Partnership... “Indn (Cooperative) Partnership. Mudrabah (Speculative} Partnership. Reputable Partner, Manual, and Comprehensive Partnerships III SHARECROPPING AND RENTING Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 ‘Chapter 5 Chapter 6 ‘Chapter 7 Sharecropping (Muzéra ‘ah and Muséqat)u.. Renting Things and Hiring People’s Services (Iaral).un Competition (Saby)..... Lending Something for Use (‘Ariyah) Usurpation...... Damage and Damages. ‘Trusts... IV RECLAMATION OF WASTELANDS AND POSSESSION OF ALLOWABLE OBJECTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Reclamation of Wastelands.. Job Wages (fa “dlah) nn. Finding Lost Objects (Luqatef... Foundlings... Endowment (Wagf) Giftand Donatiar 83 89 105 113 7 125 129 131 135, 141 147 155, 161 165 171 177 183 189 193 201 205 213A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence V INHERITANCE Chapter 1 Disposal of One's Property During Sickness. 221 Chapter 2 Wills. 225 Chapter 3 Inheritance: Rulings..... 239 Chapter 4 Causes of Inheritance and the Legal Inheritors.... 245 Chapter 5 Inheritance of Spouses... 251 Chapter 6 Inheritance of Fathers and Paternal Grandfathers........ 253 Chapter 7 _ Inheritance of Mothers. 57 Chapter 8 Inheritance of Grandmothers. 259 Chapter 9 Inheritance of Daughters..... 265 Chapter 10 Inheritance of Full Sisters. as 269 Chapter 11 Inheritance of Sisters with Daughters and Inheritance of Maternal Siblings... 275 Chapter 12. Agnation. 279 Chapter 13. Prevention from Inheritance (Hajb).. 285 Chapter 14 Inheritance of Siblings with the Paternal Grandfather... 289 Chapter 15 The Mu‘iddah... . 299 Chapter 16 Dividing Prescribed Shares according to Assumption and Precautionary Procedures... seve 307 Chapter 17 Inheritance of a Hermaphrodite........ 309 Chapter 18 Inheritance of a Fetus..... 313 Chapter 19 Inheritance of a Missing Person. . 319 Chapter 20 Inheritance of the Drowned and Those Killed Under Collapsed Buildings. 323 Chapter 21 Inheritance by Radd. 327 Chapter 22 Inheritance of Kindred by Blood... 331 Chapter 23 Inheritance of Divorced Women. . 335 Chapter 24 Inheritance among People of Different Religions... 339 Chapter 25 Inheritance of the Murderer of the Inherited Person... 343,CONTENTS VI MARRIAGE Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter? Chapter 10 Chapter LI Chapter 12 Marriage... Engagement... ‘Marriage Contract: Integrals and Conditions. Equivalence in Marriage. Unmarriageable Women... Conditions Made Before Marriage .. Defects in Spouses. Marriage of Disbelievers. Dow! Wedding Feast (Walimah). Husband-Wife Relationship. Matters Nullifying Wife’s Right of Expenses and Share of Nights... VII: DIVORCE Chapter 1 Wife's Release against Payment (Khu Chapter2 — Divor: Chapter 3 Sunni and Innovative Divorc Chapter 4 Taking Back One's Divorced Wife (Raj'ai)... . Chapter 5 fi’ (Foreswearing Ones wife More Than Four Months)..... Chapter 6 = Zihar. Chapter7 Lian (allegation of Aduny Sworn against One’s Wife). Chapter 8 — Establishing Paternity..... Chapter9 Waiting Period... Chapter 10. Verifying the Slave Girls Non- Pregnancy. VIII BREASTFEEDING Chapter 1 Breastfeeding. Chapter 2 — Custody.... Chapter 3 Causes Preventing Custody. Chapter 4 — The Wifes Alimon: ‘Chapter 5 Maintaining Relatives and Possessions... 349 357 361 367 371 379 385 389 395 403 407 415 451 483 489 495 501 507vii A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence IX QISAS (LEGAL RETRIBUTION) Chapter 1 Murder and its Types... Chapter 2 — Qigds for Murder... Chapter 3 Qisds for Parts of the Body and Wounde..... Chapter 4 — Qisds When a Group Kills an Individual.........0cce0 Chapter 5 Diyah (Blood Money)... Chapter 6 — Amounts of Diyah (Blood Money). Chapter 7 Diyah (Indemnity) for Body Organs, Senses and Functions. Chapter 8 — Diyah (Indemnity) for Wounds and Fractures. Chapter 9 — Expiation for Murder... Chapter 10 Qasdmah (Compurgation)....... X PRESCRIBED PUNISHMENTS Chapter 1 Hudiid (Prescribed Punishments). Chapter 2 Prescribed Punishments for Zin Chapter 3 Prescribed Punishment for Slande Chapter 4 — Prescribed Punishment for Intoxicants............ Chapter 5 Discretionary Punishments............ Chapter6 Prescribed Punishment for Stealing....... Chapter 7 — Prescribed Punishment for Highway Robbery..... Chapter 8 — Fighting the Rebels... Chapter Apostasy. XI FOOD Chapter 1 Food. Chapter 2 Slaughteriny Chapter 3 Hunting. XII OATHS AND VOWS Chapter 1 Oathe..... Chapter 2 Expiation for a Broken Oath... Chapter3 Vows... SIS 527 539 545 551 557 563 569 573 579 587 593 603 609 615 619 625 631 637 649 659 667 675 681 687CONTENTS XIII. QADA‘* (JUDICIARY) Chapter 1 — Judiciary in Islam........--- Chapter 2 Judge Ethics... Chapter 3. Method of Undertaking Judgment... Chapter 4 Valid Court Claim: Conditions..... Chapter5 D Chapter6 Claim and Evidence... {ing Shares among Partners... Chapter7 — Testimony... Chapter $ Letters among Judges, Testifying to Testimony, and “Taking Back Testimon Chapter Oaths in Claims..... Chapter 10 Confession... APPENDICES Glossary. Name Index... Subject Index, Quranic Verse Index. Hadith Index... ‘Transliteration System: viii 695 701 707 713 719 725 729 7al FAT 751 759 767 773 783 789 809ENGLISH ISLAMIC LIBRARY Bs Islamic Library: A series in English covering central and various issues in Creed, Jurisprudence and Islamic Sciences by authors who have expert knowledge in their fields. It targets both the Muslims and the non-Muslims in the west as well as those who study Islamic Sciences in English in Arab countries. It also targets those who are engaged in propagating Tslam in the West. IN THIS SERIES: 1, Concise Commentary on the Book of Tawhtd: Sheikh professor Salih Al-Fawzan 2. A Sumnary of Islamic Jurisprudence (Volume one): Sheikh professor Salih Al-Fawzin 3. A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence (Volume two): Sheikh professor Salih Al-Fawzan 4, Guide to Sound Creed: Sheikh professor Salih Al-Fawz4n 5.A Brief Account of the Prophet Biography: Sheikh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhab 6. Allalt’s Insightful Signs: Tawi *Ulwan 7. The Way of the Travelers: An Explanatory Book on Islamic Jurisprudence: Sheikh *Abdur-Rahman As-Sa* di 8. Exonerating the Great Iméms from Blame: imam Ibn 'Taymiyah 9. Universality of Islam: Imam Ibn Taymiyah 10. Iba Taymiyal’s Collection of Fatwas (Volumes 21 & 22 & 23)EDITORIAL STAFF MAIN EDITORS NATIVE EDITOR * Dr. Attia Es-Sayyed Attia = Umm Abdullah * Dr Muhammad Yahya "Dr. Fahad M. Al-Malik, KFSC, Saudi Arabia REVISERS CONTRIBUTING TRANSLATORS * Mahmoud Fouly Muhammad * Muhammad Abdul-Moneim Ali * Bahaa El-Din Ibrahim = Hani Mahmoud Abdul-Fattah DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY SHAR'LAND ARABIC CONSULTANTS * Graphic Designer: Muhammad Salih = Sheikh Hatem Amin Ali * Layout: Mokhtar ‘Ihvany * Hamada Ebeid Ahmed = Muhammad Nusair Mogahed About the Author Sheikh Salih Al-Fawzin (born in 1935) has obtained a PhD in Islamic Jurisprudence and has a long history in teaching jurisprudence. He is a member of many academic institutions including the Board of Senior Ulema, the Permanent Committee for Fatwa and Research, the Islamic Academy of Muslim World League, the Committee of Supervising Du’ ah, and many other scholastic bodies. He has written more than sixty published works covering Muslim Creed, Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim's Conduct.