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Muwatta Imam Malik by Imam Malik (711–795)

Muwaṭṭa’ means the clear book which smooths the way and is not difficult for the seeker of knowledge to grasp. It is also related that Mālik gave his book this title because he read it to a group of the people of knowledge and they agreed with him about it (wāṭa’a).
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Abū ‘Abdullāh Mālik ibn Anas al-Aṣbaḥī al-Madanī

al-Muwaṭṭa

Sunni Tradition of Imam Malik

“After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of
the earth sounder than the book of Mālik.”

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Ibn Ḥajar said, “the book of Mālik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the mursal, munqaṭi‘ and other types of transmission.” then as-Suyūṭī followed what Ibn Ḥajar said here and said, “e mursal ḥadīths in it are a proof with him (ash-Shāfi‘ī) as well because the mursal is a proof with us when it is properly supported. Every mursal report in the Muwaṭṭa’ has one or more supports as will be made clear in this commentary (i.e. Tanwīr alḤawālik). It is absolutely correct to say that the Muwaṭṭa’ is sound
(ṣaḥīḥ) without exception.”

There are two areas which particularly interest people regarding the Muwaṭṭa’. One of them is its transmission and the other is its commentary and the discussion about its transmitters and the different expressions they use and so forth. As for interest in its transmitters, we have already shown how the seekers of knowledge in Mālik’s time came from East, West, South and North out of the desire to sit in his circle and take from him. Many of this group related the Muwaṭṭa’ from him and preserved it in their hearts or in writing. The men of the generation after their generation were also concerned with it.

If the reader looks at the Muwaṭṭa’ with respect to its language, he will find that its language shows that the author was a pure Arab. His language has both force and simplicity. Its terms are neither odd nor hackneyed. His style is free of oversimplification, unnecessary complexity or triteness. Despite its length, the book does not contain any linguistic or grammatical errors nor any of the faults which the scholars of rhetoric warn against. [Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley]

Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Muhammad ibn Jubayr ibn Mutim that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “I have five names. I am Muhammad. I am Ahmad. I am al-Mahi (the effacer), by whom Allah effaces kufr. I am al-Hashir (the gatherer), before whom people are gathered. I am al-Aqib (the last).”

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Contents

  1. THE TIMES OF PRAYER
    1.1 The times of prayer
    1.2 The time of the jumu‘a prayer
    1.3 Whoever catches a rak‘a of the ṣalāh
    1.4 Dulūk ash-shams and ghasaq al-layl
    1.5 The times of prayer in general
    1.6 Sleeping through the prayer
    1.7 Not doing the prayer at the hottest hour of the day
    1.8 Not entering the mosque smelling of garlic and not covering the mouth in prayer
  2. BOOK OF PURITY
    2.1 How to perform wuḍū’
    2.2 Wudu’ for praying after sleep
    2.3 What is pure for wuḍū’
    2.4 Things which do not break wuḍū’
    2.5 Not doing wuḍū’ on account of eating cooked food
    2.6 Wuḍū’ in general
    2.7 Wiping the head and ears
    2.8 Wiping over leather socks
    2.9 How to wipe over leather socks
    2.10 Nosebleeds in the prayer
    2.11 Nosebleeds in general
    2.12 Bleeding from a wound or a nosebleed
    2.13 Wuḍū’ on account of prostatic fluid
    2.14 Indulgence about not having to do wuḍū’ on account of prostatic fluid
    2.15 Wuḍū’ on account of touching the genitals
    2.16 Wuḍū’ on account of a man kissing his wife
    2.17 How to perform ghusl on account of major ritual impurity
    2.18 Ghusl from the two “circumcised parts” meeting
    2.19 Wuḍū’ of a person in a state of major ritual impurity (janāba) when he wants to go to sleep or eat before having a ghusl
    2.20 The repetition of the prayer by a person in a state of major ritual impurity, his doing ghusl when he has prayed without remembering it, and his washing his garments
    2.21 Ghusl of a woman when she experiences the same as a man in her sleep
    2.22 Ghusl for major ritual impurity
    2.23 Tayammum
    2.24 How to do tayammum
    2.25 Tayammum of someone in a state of major ritual impurity
    2.26 What is permitted to a man from his wife when she is menstruating
    2.27 The purity of a woman after menstruation
    2.28 Menstruation in general
    2.29 Bleeding as if menstruating
    2.30 The urine of an infant boy
    2.31 Urinating standing and otherwise
    2.32 The tooth-stick (siwāk)
  3. PRAYER
    3.1 The call to prayer
    3.2 The Azan on a journey and without wuḍū’
    3.3 The meal before dawn (saḥūr) in relation to the adhān
    3.4 The opening of the prayer
    3.5 The recitation of Qur’ān in the Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ prayers
    3.6 Behaviour in the recitation
    3.7 The recitation in the Ṣubḥ prayer
    3.8 The Umm al-Qur’ān
    3.9 Reciting to oneself behind the imām when he does not recite aloud
    3.10 Not reciting behind the imām when he recites aloud
    3.11 Saying ‘amīn’ behind the imām
    3.12 Behaviour in the sitting in the prayer
    3.13 Tashahhud in the prayer
    3.14 What to do if one raises one’s head before the imām
    3.15 What to do if through forgetfulness one says the taslīm after two rak‘as
    3.16 Completing what is recalled when uncertain how much has been prayed
    3.17 What to do if one stands after the completion of the prayer or after two rak‘as
    3.18 Distraction in the prayer
  4. FORGETFULNESS IN THE PRAYER
    4.1 What to do if one forgets in prayer
  5. JUMU‘A
    5.1 Ghusl on the day of jumu‘a
    5.2 Paying attention when the imām is giving the khuṭba on the day of jumu‘a
    5.3 Catching a rak‘a of the jumu‘a prayer
    5.4 Nose-bleeds on the day of jumu‘a
    5.5 Making haste on the day of jumu‘a
    5.6 The Imām’s stopping off in a town on the day of jumu‘a
    5.7 The special time in the day of jumu‘a
    5.8 Good appearance and not stepping over people and facing the imām on the day of jumu‘a
    5.9 The recitation in the jumu‘a prayer, the sitting, and missing the prayer without a reason
  6. PRAYER IN RAMADAN
    6.1 Stimulation of the desire for prayer in Ramaḍān
    6.2 Praying at night during Ramaḍān
  7. TAHAJJUD
    7.1 Concerning prayer in the night
    7.2 How the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم prayed the witr
    7.3 The command to pray the witr
    7.4 Praying the witr after the break of dawn
    7.5 The two rak‘as of Fajr
  8. PRAYER IN CONGREGATION
    8.1 The superiority of prayer in congregation over prayer alone
    8.2 The ‘Ishā’ and Ṣubḥ prayers
    8.3 Repeating the prayer with the imām
    8.4 Praying in a group of people
    8.5 Prayer behind an imām when he prays sitting
    8.6 e excellence of prayer standing over prayer sitting
    8.7 Praying voluntary prayers (nawāfil)
    8.8 e middle prayer
    8.9 Permission to pray in one garment
    8.10 Permission for a woman to pray in a shift and head-covering
  9. SHORTENING THE PRAYER
    9.1 Joining two prayers when settled and when travelling
    9.2 Shortening the prayer in travel
    9.3 Circumstances in which the prayer has to be shortened
    9.4 e prayer of a traveller when undecided whether to remain in a
    place or not
    9.5 Doing the full prayer when one decides to remain in a place
    9.6 e prayer of a traveller when acting as imām, or when praying behind an imām
    9.7 Voluntary prayers while travelling, by day and at night, and praying on a riding beast
    9.8 The Ḍuḥā prayer
    9.9 General remarks about the voluntary prayer of Ḍuḥā
    9.10 Strong warning against passing in front of a person praying
    9.11 Permission to pass in front of someone praying
    9.12 e sutra of a traveller praying
    9.13 Brushing away small stones in the prayer
    9.14 Straightening the rows
    9.15 Placing one hand on the other in the prayer
    9.16 Qunūt in the Ṣubḥ prayer
    9.17 Prohibition against a man praying when wishing to relieve himself
    9.18 Waiting for the prayer and walking to it
    9.19 Placing the hands flat on the surface by the face in prostration
    9.20 Turning around and clapping when necessary during the prayer
    9.21 Joining the prayer while the imām is in rukū‘
    9.22 e prayer on the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
    9.23 How to perform the prayer in general
    9.24 Prayer in general
    9.25 Stimulation of the desire for prayer in general
  10. THE TWO ‘ĪDS
    10.1 Ghusl for the two ‘Īds, the call to prayer for them, and the iqāma
    10.2 e order to pray before the khuṭba on the two ‘Īds
    10.3 e order to eat before going out on the morning of the ‘Īd
    10.4 e takbīrs and the recitation in the prayer of the two ‘Īds
    10.5 Refraining from praying before and after the two ‘Īd prayers
    10.6 Permission to pray before and after the two ‘Īd prayers
    10.7 The coming of the imām on the Day of the ‘Īd and waiting for the khuṭba
  11. THE FEAR PRAYER
    11.1 e Fear Prayer
  12. THE ECLIPSE PRAYER
    12.1 How to pray the Eclipse Prayer
    12.2 About the Eclipse Prayer
  13. PRAYING FOR RAIN
    13.1 How to pray for rain
    13.2 What is reported about praying for rain
    13.3 About asking the stars for rain
  14. THE QIBLA
    14.1 the prohibition against relieving oneself facing the qibla
    14.2 Permission to face the qibla when urinating or defecating
    14.3 e prohibition of spitting towards the Qibla
    14.4 About the qibla
    14.5 e Mosque of the Prophet
    14.6 Women going out to the mosque
  15. THE QUR’ĀN
    15.1 The command to be in wuḍū’ (when touching the Qur’ān)
    15.2 Allowance to recite the Qur’ān while not in wuḍū’
    15.3 The division of the Qur’ān into sections (ḥizbs)
    15.4 About the Qur’ān
    15.5 e prostration of the Qur’ān
    15.6 About reciting Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ and Sūrat al-Mulk
    15.7 Dhikr (Remembrance) of Allah, the Blessed and Exalted
    15.8 Du‘ā’ (supplication)
    15.9 Making supplication (du‘ā’)
    15.10 Prayer forbidden after Ṣubḥ and after ‘Aṣr
  16. BURIALS
    16.1 Washing the dead
    16.2 Shrouding the dead
    16.3 Preceeding the bier
    16.4 e prohibition against following the bier with a burning torch
    16.5 e takbīrs in funerals
    16.6 What to say in the prayer for the dead
    16.7 Permission to pray over the dead after Ṣubḥ until the dawn is clear
    and after ‘Aṣr until the sun turns yellow
    16.8 Doing the prayer for the dead in mosques
    16.9 e prayer over the dead in general
    16.10 Burying the dead
    16.11 Stopping for funerals and sitting in graveyards
    16.12 e prohibition of weeping over the dead
    16.13 Fortitude in the face of misfortune
    16.14 Fortitude in the face of misfortune generally
    16.15 Exhumation
    16.16 Burial in general
  17. ZAKĀT
    17.1 Things subject to zakāt
    17.2 e zakāt on gold and silver coins
    17.3 Zakāt on mines
    17.4 Zakāt on buried treasure (rikāz)
    17.5 Non-zakatable items of jewelry, bits of gold and silver, and amber
    17.6 Zakāt on the property of orphans and trading for orphans
    17.7 Zakāt on inheritance
    17.8 Zakāt on debts
    17.9 Zakāt on merchandise
    17.10 Wealth which has been hidden away (kanz)
    17.11 Zakāt on livestock
    17.12 Zakāt on cattle
    17.13 Zakāt of associates
    17.14 Counting lambs and kids when assessing zakāt
    17.15 Zakāt when two years are assessed together
    17.16 e prohibition of making things difficult for people in taking zakāt
    17.17 Receiving zakāt, and who is permitted to receive it
    17.18 Collecting zakāt and being firm in doing so
    17.19 Zakāt on estimated yields of date-palms and vines
    17.20 Zakāt on seeds and olives
    17.21 Non-zakatable fruits
    17.22 Non-zakatable fruits, animal fodder and vegetables
    17.23 Zakāt on slaves, horses and honey
    17.24 Jizya imposed on the People of the Book and Magians
    17.25 e ‘ushr for the People of Dhimma
    17.26 Selling ṣadaqa and taking it back
    17.27 Who pays the Zakāt al-Fiṭr
    17.28 Measuring the Zakāt al-Fiṭr
    17.29 When to send the Zakāt al-Fiṭr
    17.30 People who are not obliged to pay the Zakāt al-Fiṭr
  18. FASTING
    18.1 Sighting the new moon for beginning and ending the fast of Ramaḍān
    18.2 Making the intention to fast before dawn
    18.3 Being quick to break the fast
    18.4 Fasting when someone finds himself in janāba in the morning
    during Ramaḍān
    18.5 Permission for a fasting man to kiss
    18.6 Being strict about kissing when fasting
    18.7 Fasting while travelling
    18.8 Returning from a journey in Ramaḍān and intention to travel in Ramaḍān
    18.9 Kaffāra (making amends) for breaking the fast in Ramaḍān
    18.10 Cupping a man who is fasting
    18.11 Fasting the Day of ‘Āshūrā’ (the 10th of Muḥarram)
    18.12 Fasting the Days of Fiṭr and Aḍḥā and fasting continuously
    18.13 e prohibition against fasting for two days or more without breaking the fast in between (wiṣāl)
    18.14 Fasting on account of manslaughter or for pronouncing the ẓihār form of divorce
    18.15 Illness and the fast
    18.16 The vow to fast, and fasting on behalf of a dead person
    18.17 Making up days missed in Ramaḍān, and the kaffāra
    18.18 Making up voluntary fasts
    18.19 The fidya (compensation) for breaking the fast in Ramaḍān for a reason
    18.20 Making up days of Ramaḍān in general
    18.21 Fasting the “Day of Doubt”
    18.22 e Fast in General
  19. I‘TIKĀF IN RAMAḌĀN
    19.1 Concerning i‘tikāf (retreat)
    19.2 Essentials of i‘tikāf
    19.3 Leaving i‘tikāf for the ‘Īd
    19.4 Making up for the i‘tikāf (not done)
    19.5 Marriage in i‘tikāf
    19.6 Laylat al-Qadr (e Night of Power)
  20. ḤAJJ
    20.1 The ghusl of iḥrām
    20.2 Ghusl in iḥrām
    20.3 Clothes forbidden in iḥrām
    20.4 Clothes worn in iḥrām
    20.5 Wearing a belt in iḥrām
    20.6 Veiling the face in iḥrām
    20.7 Wearing perfume during ḥajj
    20.8 Points of entry for iḥrām (mawāqīt)
    20.9 e method of entering iḥrām
    20.10 Raising the voice in talbiya
    20.11 Ḥajj al-ifrād
    20.12 Performing ḥajj and ‘umra together (Ḥajj al-Qirān)
    20.13 When to stop the talbiya
    20.14 How the people of Makka, and those besides them living there, go into iḥrām
    20.15 Situations when iḥrām is not obligatory for garlanding sacrificial animals
    20.16 Menstruating women on ḥajj
    20.17 ‘Umra in the months of ḥajj
    20.18 When to stop saying the talbiya for ‘umra
    20.19 Ḥajj at-Tamattu‘
    20.20 Circumstances in which tamattu‘ is not obligatory
    20.21 About ‘umra in general
    20.22 Marriage while in iḥrām
    20.23 Cupping while in iḥrām
    20.24 Game that can be eaten by someone who is in iḥrām
    20.25 Game that is not lawful to eat while in iḥrām
    20.26 Hunting in the Ḥaram
    20.27 Assessing the forfeit for hunting game animals
    20.28 Animals that someone in iḥrām can kill
    20.29 ings that someone in iḥrām is allowed to do
    20.30 Performing the ḥajj for somebody else
    20.31 Someone whose path (to the House) is blocked by an enemy
    20.32 Someone who is prevented (from going to the House) by something other than an enemy
    20.33 Building the Ka‘ba
    20.34 Hastening (raml) in the ṭawāf
    20.35 Saluting the corners during ṭawāf
    20.36 Kissing the corner of the Black Stone when saluting the corners
    20.37 e two rak‘as of ṭawāf
    20.38 Praying after Ṣubḥ and ‘Aṣr when doing ṭawāf
    20.39 Taking leave of the House
    20.40 Tawāf in general
    20.41 Starting with Safā in the sa‘y
    20.42 Sa‘y in general
    20.43 Fasting the Day of ‘Arafa
    20.44 Fasting on the Days of Minā
    20.45 What are acceptable as sacrificial animals (hadys)
    20.46 Treatment of sacrificial animals while being driven to sacrifice
    20.47 Injury to sacrificial animals or their loss
    20.48 e animal to be sacrificed on account of intercourse in iḥrām
    20.49 e animal to be sacrificed on account of missing the ḥajj
    20.50 Intercourse before the Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa
    20.51 e sacrificial animals considered least difficult
    20.52 Sacrificial animals in general
    20.53 e wuqūf (standing) at ‘Arafa and Muzdalifa
    20.54 Wuqūf while not in wuḍū’, and wuqūf on a riding beast
    20.55 e wuqūf at ‘Arafa of someone who misses the ḥajj
    20.56 Sending women and children ahead
    20.57 Going from ‘Arafa to Muzdalifa
    20.58 Sacrificing during the ḥajj
    20.59 How to make the sacrifice
    20.60 Shaving the head
    20.61 Cutting the Hair
    20.62 Gumming the hair
    20.63 Performing the prayer in the House, shortening the prayer, and hastening the khuṭba at ‘Arafa
    20.64 Performing the prayer at Minā on the eighth day of Dhū al-Ḥijja, and the jumu‘a at Minā and ‘Arafa
    20.65 Performing the prayer at Muzdalifa
    20.66 Performing the prayer at Minā
    20.67 e prayer of a visitor to Makka or Minā
    20.68 Saying the takbīr during the Days of Tashrīq
    20.69 Performing the prayer at al-Mu‘arras and al-Muḥaṣṣab
    20.70 Staying overnight at Makka on the nights of Minā
    20.71 Stoning the jamras
    20.72 Indulgence with respect to stoning the jamras
    20.73 e Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa
    20.74 A menstruating woman’s entering Makka
    20.75 e Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa of a menstruating woman
    20.76 e compensation (fidya) for killing birds and wild animals while in iḥrām
    20.77 e fidya for killing locusts in iḥrām
    20.78 e fidya for shaving the head before sacrificing
    20.79 Forgetfulness in the rituals
    20.80 Compensation (fidya) in general
    20.81 e ḥajj in general
    20.82 e ḥajj of a woman without a maḥram
    20.83 Fasting in Ḥajj at-Tamattu‘
  21. JIHĀD
    21.1 Stimulation of desire for jihād
    21.2 Prohibition against travelling with the Qur’ān in enemy territory
    21.3 The prohibition against killing women and children in military expeditions
    21.4 Fulfilling safe conduct
    21.5 Giving in the Way of Allah
    21.6 Booty from war in general
    21.7 Things on which the tax of one-fifth (khums) is not obligatory
    21.8 What it is permissible for the Muslims to eat before the spoils are divided
    21.9 Returning enemy plunder to the owner before the division of the spoils
    21.10 Stripping the slain of their personal effects in the booty
    21.11 Awarding extra portions from the fifth (khums)
    21.12 The share of the spoils allotted to cavalry in military expeditions
    21.13 Stealing from the spoils
    21.14 Martyrs in the Way of Allah
    21.15 Things in which martyrdom lies
    21.16 How to wash a martyr
    21.17 What is disliked to be done with something given in the Way of Allah
    21.18 Stimulation of desire for jihād
    21.19 Horses and racing them and financing in military expeditions
    21.20 Acquisition of the land of dhimmīs who surrender
    21.21 Burial in one grave by necessity and Abū Bakr’s carrying out the
    promise of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم after the death of the صلى الله عليه وسلم Messenger
  22. VOWS AND OATHS
    22.1 Fulfilling vows to walk
    22.2 Making vows to walk to the House and not succeeding
    22.3 How to fulfil the oath of walking to the Ka‘ba
    22.4 Vows not permitted in disobedience to Allah
    22.5 Inadvertence in oaths
    22.6 Oaths for which kaffāra is not obligatory
    22.7 Oaths for which kaffāra is obligatory
    22.8 What is done regarding the kaffāra of a broken oath
    22.9 Oaths in general
  23. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS
    23.1 Animals avoided as sacrifices
    23.2 Animals desirable as sacrifices
    23.3 Prohibition against sacrificing an animal before the imām finishes
    23.4 Storing meat from sacrificial animals
    23.5 Sharing sacrificial animals
    23.6 e sacrificial animal for the child in the womb and mention of the
    Days of Sacrifice
  24. SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS
    24.1 Saying the Name of Allah over the slaughtered animal
    24.2 Methods of slaughter permitted in necessity
    24.3 What is disapproved of in slaughtering animals
    24.4 Slaughtering what is in the womb of a slaughtered animal
  25. GAME
    25.1 Eating game killed with throwing sticks and by stones
    25.2 Game caught by trained dogs
    25.3 Catching sea animals
    25.4 Prohibition against eating animals with fangs
    25.5 What is disapproved of regarding eating riding animals
    25.6 Using the skin of animals found dead
    25.7 Eating carrion when forced to, out of necessity
  26. THE ‘AQĪQA
    26.1 About the ‘aqīqa
    26.2 Behaviour in the ‘aqīqa
  27. FIXED SHARES OF INHERITANCE
    27.1 Inheritance of direct descendants
    27.2 Inheritance of husbands from wives and wives from husbands
    27.3 Inheritance of fathers and mothers from children
    27.4 Inheritance of maternal half-siblings
    27.5 Inheritance of full-siblings
    27.6 Inheritance of paternal half-siblings
    27.7 Inheritance of grandfathers
    27.8 Inheritance of grandmothers
    27.9 Inheritance of persons without parents or offspring
    27.10 Paternal aunts
    27.11 Inheritance of paternal relations (‘aṣaba)
    27.12 People who do not inherit
    27.13 Inheritance from the people of other religions
    27.14 People killed in battle or otherwise whose situation in inheritance
    is not known
    27.15 e inheritance of the child of li‘ān and the child of fornication
  28. MARRIAGE
    28.1 Asking for someone’s hand in marriage
    28.2 Asking the consent of virgins and women previously married
    28.3 e bride-price and unreturnable gifts
    28.4 Consummating a marriage
    28.5 Wedding nights of virgins and of women previously married
    28.6 Stipulations not permitted in marriage
    28.7 Marriage of a muḥallil and its like
    28.8 Combinations of women not to be married together
    28.9 Prohibition against marrying mothers of wives
    28.10 Marriage to mothers of women with whom one has had sexual relations in a disapproved manner
    28.11 What is not permitted in marriage in general
    28.12 Marrying slaves when already married to free women
    28.13 A man’s owning a slave whom he has married and then divorced
    28.14 Reprehensibility of intercourse with two sisters or a mother and
    daughter that one owns
    28.15 Prohibition against intercourse with a slave-girl who belonged to
    one’s father
    28.16 Prohibition against marrying slave-girls who are People of the Book
    28.17 Muḥsanāt
    28.18 Temporary marriage
    28.19 Marriage of slaves
    28.20 e marriage of idolators when their wives become Muslim before them
    28.21 e wedding feast
    28.22 Marriage in general
  29. DIVORCE
    29.1 The ‘irrevocable’ divorce
    29.2 Divorce by euphemistic statements
    29.3 Giving wives the right of full divorce
    29.4 When a wife’s authority must be considered as only a single pronouncement of divorce
    29.5 When allowing a wife her authority does not constitute a divorce
    29.6 Annulment of marriage by the husband’s vow to refrain from intercourse (īlā’)
    29.7 e īlā’ (vow of abstention) of slaves
    29.8 Ẓihār of freemen
    29.9 Ẓihār done by slaves
    29.10 e option (of slave-girls married to slaves when freed)
    29.11 Separating from wives for compensation (khul‘)
    29.12 e khul‘ divorce
    29.13 Li‘ān (invoking mutual curses)
    29.14 Inheritance of children of women against whom li‘ān has been
    pronounced
    29.15 Divorce of virgins
    29.16 Divorce of sick men
    29.17 Compensatory gift after divorce
    29.18 e divorce of a slave
    29.19 Maintenance of slave-girls divorced when pregnant
    29.20 ‘Idda of women with missing husbands
    29.21 ‘Idda of divorce and divorce of menstruating women
    29.22 ‘Idda of women in their houses when divorced in them
    29.23 Maintenance of divorced women
    29.24 ‘Idda of slave-girls divorced by their husbands
    29.25 General chapter on ‘idda of divorce
    29.26 e two arbiters
    29.27 Oath of men to divorce while not yet married
    29.28 Deadline of men who do not have intercourse with their wives
    29.29 General section on divorce
    29.30 ‘Idda of widows when pregnant
    29.31 Widows remaining in their houses until free to marry
    29.32 ‘Idda of an umm walad on her master’s death
    29.33 ‘Idda of slave-girls whose master or husband dies
    29.34 Coitus interruptus
    29.35 Limit of abstaining from adornment in mourning
  30. SUCKLING
    30.1 Suckling of the young
    30.2 Suckling of older people
    30.3 Suckling in general
  31. BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
    31.1 Non-returnable deposits (‘urbūn)
    31.2 Wealth of slaves
    31.3 Built-in liability agreements
    31.4 Defects in slaves
    31.5 e purchase of slave-girls with conditions attached
    31.6 Prohibition against intercourse with married slave-girls
    31.7 Ownership of the fruit of trees sold
    31.8 Prohibition against selling fruit until starting to ripen
    31.9 e sale of ‘ariyyas
    31.10 e effect of crop damage on the sale of agricultural produce
    31.11 Keeping back a portion of the fruit
    31.12 Disapproved practices in the sale of dates
    31.13 Muzābana and muḥāqala
    31.14 General remarks about selling produce at its source
    31.15 Selling fruit
    31.16 Selling gold for silver, minted and unminted
    31.17 Money-changing
    31.18 Selling gold for gold and silver for silver by weight
    31.19 Buying on delayed terms and re-selling for less on more immediate terms
    31.20 What is disapproved of in selling food with delayed payment or delivery
    31.21 Pre-payment on food
    31.22 Bartering food for food with no increase between them
    31.23 General section on selling food
    31.24 Hoarding and raising prices by stockpiling
    31.25 What is permitted in bartering animals for other animals and advances on animals
    31.26 What is not permitted in the sale of animals
    31.27 Selling animals in exchange for meat
    31.28 Selling meat for meat
    31.29 Selling dogs
    31.30 Advance and sale of some goods for others
    31.31 An advance on goods
    31.32 Selling weighable items like copper and iron and similar things
    31.33 Prohibition against two sales in one
    31.34 Transactions with uncertainty in them
    31.35 Al-mulāmasa and al-munābadha
    31.36 Murābaḥa transactions (partnership between investors and borrowers in profit-sharing re-sales)
    31.37 Sales according to a list of contents
    31.38 e right of withdrawal (khiyār)
    31.39 Usury in debts
    31.40 Debts and transfer of debts in general
    31.41 Partnership, transferral of responsibility to an agent and revocation
    31.42 Bankruptcy of debtors
    31.43 What is permitted of free loans
    31.44 What is not permitted of free loans
    31.45 What is forbidden of haggling and such transactions
    31.46 Business transactions in general
  32. QIRĀḌ
    32.1 Qirāḍ
    32.2 What is permitted in qirāḍ
    32.3 What is not permitted in qirāḍ
    32.4 Conditions permitted in qirāḍ
    32.5 Conditions not permitted in qirāḍ
    32.6 Qirāḍ in Wares
    32.7 Hire in qirāḍ
    32.8 Overstepping in qirāḍ
    32.9 Expenses permitted in qirāḍ
    32.10 Expenses not permitted in qirāḍ
    32.11 Debts in qirāḍ
    32.12 Goods in qirāḍ
    32.13 Loans in qirāḍ
    32.14 Accounting in qirāḍ
    32.15 A general view of qirāḍ
  33. CROPSHARING
    33.1 Cropsharing
    33.2 e condition about slaves in cropsharing
  34. RENTING LAND
    34.1 Renting land
  35. PRE-EMPTION IN PROPERTY
    35.1 Cases in which pre-emption is possible
    35.2 Cases in which pre-emption is not possible
  36. JUDGEMENTS
    36.1 Stimulation of desire to judge correctly
    36.2 Giving testimony
    36.3 Judgement on testimony of those who have received ḥaddpunishments
    36.4 Judgement based on oaths along with the testimony of a single witness
    36.5 Judgement on a deceased with a debt against him and a debt for
    him and only one witness
    36.6 Judgement on claims
    36.7 Judgement on the testimony of children
    36.8 Perjury on the minbar of the Prophet
    36.9 Taking oaths on the minbar in general
    36.10 Prohibition against forfeiting pledges given on security
    36.11 Judgement on pledging fruit and animals as security
    36.12 Judgement on pledging animals as security
    36.13 Judgement on pledges shared between two men
    36.14 Judgement on pledges in general
    36.15 Judgement on renting animals and going beyond specified destinations
    36.16 Judgement about raped women
    36.17 Judgement on consuming other people’s animals
    36.18 Judgement on the abandonment of Islam
    36.19 Judgement on men finding other men with their wives
    36.20 Judgement on the abandoned child
    36.21 Judgement on attaching paternity to children
    36.22 Judgement on inheritance of attached children
    36.23 Judgement on women who are umm walad
    36.24 Judgement on bringing barren land into cultivation
    36.25 Judgement on watering land
    36.26 Judgement on benefiting neighbours
    36.27 Judgement on division of properties
    36.28 Judgement on animals grazing on other people’s crops and animals stolen from the herd
    36.29 Judgement on injuries to domestic animals
    36.30 Judgement regarding articles given to artisans to work on
    36.31 Judgement on taking on debts and transfers of debts
    36.32 Judgement on garments bought which have defects
    36.33 What is not permitted in giving gifts (1)
    36.34 What is not permitted in giving gifts (2)
    36.35 Judgement on gifts
    36.36 Taking back ṣadaqa
    36.37 Judgement on life grants
    36.38 e ruling on lost property which is found
    36.39 Judgement on slaves using finds
    36.40 Judgement on strays
    36.41 Ṣadaqa of the living for the dead
  37. WILLS AND TESTAMENTS
    37.1 The command to write wills
    37.2 Permissibility of bequests made by children, simpletons, lunatics and idiots
    37.3 Limiting bequests to one-third of the estate
    37.4 Dealing with the property of a pregnant woman, a sick person and someone present in battle
    37.5 Bequests to heirs and right of possession
    37.6 Effeminate men and the custody of children
    37.7 Liability for defective goods
    37.8 General chapter on rendering judgement and aversion to it
    37.9 Damages and injuries caused by slaves
    37.10 What is permitted in gifts
  38. SETTING FREE AND WALĀ’
    38.1 Freeing a share held in a slave
    38.2 Making conditions when freeing a slave
    38.3 People who free slaves and own no other property
    38.4 Judgement on the property of slaves when they are set free
    38.5 Freeing slaves who are umm walads and a general section on freeing
    38.6 Slaves permitted to be freed when a slave must be freed by obligation
    38.7 Slaves not permitted to be freed when a slave must be freed by obligation
    38.8 Freeing the living for the dead
    38.9 The excellence of freeing slaves, freeing adulteresses and illegitimate children
    38.10 The right of the one who sets free to the walā’
    38.11 Slaves attracting the walā’ when set free
    38.12 The inheritance of the walā’
    38.13 e inheritance of slaves set free and the walā’ of Jews and
    Christians who set slaves Free
  39. THE MUKĀTAB
    39.1 Judgement on the mukātab
    39.2 Assuming responsibility in kitāba
    39.3 Severance in the kitāba for an agreed price
    39.4 Injuries caused by mukātabs
    39.5 Selling mukātabs
    39.6 e labour of mukātabs
    39.7 Freeing a mukātab on payment of his due before its term
    39.8 e inheritance of a mukātab on emancipation
    39.9 Conditions concerning mukātabs
    39.10 e walā’ of the mukātab when he is set free
    39.11 What is not permitted in freeing a mukātab
    39.12 Freeing a mukātab and an umm walad
    39.13 Bequests involving mukātabs
  40. THE MUDABBAR
    40.1 Judgement on the mudabbar
    40.2 General section on tadbīr
    40.3 Bequests involving tadbīr
    40.4 A master’s intercourse with his mudabbara
    40.5 Selling mudabbars
    40.6 Injuries caused by mudabbars
    40.7 Injuries caused by an umm walad
  41. ḤUDŪD
    41.1 Stoning
    41.2 Self-confession of fornication
    41.3 The ḥadd for fornication
    41.4 Rape
    41.5 e ḥadd for slander, denial of paternity and insinuation
    41.6 at for which there is no ḥadd punishment
    41.7 at which obliges cutting off the hand
    41.8 Cutting off the hands of runaway slaves who steal
    41.9 Intercession is cut off for thieves when cases reach the ruler
    41.10 General section on cutting off the hand
    41.11 ings for which the hand is not cut off
  42. DRINKS
    42.1 e ḥadd punishment for drinking wine
    42.2 Containers forbidden for preparation of nabīdh
    42.3 Mixtures of fruit disapproved for making nabīdh
    42.4 e prohibition of wine
    42.5 General section on the prohibition of wine
  43. BLOOD MONEY
    43.1 Concerning blood-money
    43.2 Procedure in blood-money
    43.3 e blood-money for murder when accepted, and the criminal act
    of the insane
    43.4 e blood-money for manslaughter
    43.5 e blood-money for accidental injury
    43.6 e blood-money for women
    43.7 e blood-money for the foetus
    43.8 Injuries for which there is full blood-money
    43.9 e blood-money for an eye whose sight is lost
    43.10 e blood-money for head wounds
    43.11 e blood-money for fingers
    43.12 General section on the blood-money for teeth
    43.13 Procedure in the blood-money for teeth
    43.14 e blood-money for injuries to slaves
    43.15 e blood-money of the People of Protection (dhimma)
    43.16 Blood-money that has to be paid on an individual basis
    43.17 Inheritance of blood-money and making it more severe
    43.18 General section on blood-money
    43.19 Killing secretly by trickery and sorcery
    43.20 What is obligatory for intentional injury
    43.21 Retaliation in killing
    43.22 Pardoning murder
    43.23 Retaliation in Injury
    43.24 e blood-money and crime of the slave set free and from whom
    his former master does not inherit
  44. THE OATH OF QASĀMA
    44.1 Beginning with the people seeking blood revenge in the oath
    44.2 Blood relatives who are permitted to swear in the case of an
    intentional act
    44.3 Swearing in the case of manslaughter
    44.4 Inheritance in cases of qasāma
    44.5 Swearing for blood revenge in cases involving slaves
  45. A COMPREHENSIVE BOOK
    45.1 Supplication for Madīna and its people
    45.2 What has been narrated about dwelling in Madīna and leaving it
    45.3 Making Madīna a ḥaram
    45.4 e epidemic of Madīna
    45.5 e expulsion of the Jews from Madīna
    45.6 Concerning Madīna
    45.7 About the plague
  46. THE DECREE
    46.1 e Prohibition against talking about the Decree
    46.2 General section on the People of the Decree
  47. GOOD CHARACTER
    47.1 Good character
    47.2 Modesty
    47.3 Anger
    47.4 Shunning People
  48. DRESS
    48.1 Wearing clothes for beautification
    48.2 Wearing dyed garments and gold
    48.3 Wearing rough silk
    48.4 Clothes disapproved for women to wear
    48.5 A man trailing his garments
    48.6 A woman trailing her garments
    48.7 Wearing sandals
    48.8 Ways of dressing
  49. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPHET صلى الله عليه وسلم
    49.1 Description of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
    49.2 Description of ‘Īsā ibn Maryam e and the Dajjāl
    49.3 Sunna of the fiṭra (natural form)
    49.4 Prohibition against eating with the left hand
    49.5 e very poor
    49.6 e intestines of the unbeliever
    49.7 Prohibition against drinking from silver vessels and blowing into drinks
    49.8 Drinking while standing
    49.9 e sunna about drinking and passing to the right
    49.10 General section on food and drink
    49.11 Eating meat
    49.12 Wearing rings
    49.13 Pulling off necklaces and bells from the necks of camels
  50. THE EVIL EYE
    50.1 Wuḍū’ against the Evil Eye
    50.2 Guarding against the Evil Eye
    50.3 The invalid’s reward
    50.4 Seeking refuge and using talismans in illness
    50.5 Treating the invalid
    50.6 Washing with water for a fever
    50.7 Visiting invalids, and evil omens
  51. HAIR
    51.1 e sunna regarding hair
    51.2 Caring for hair
    51.3 Dyeing the hair
    Chapters on Seeking Refuge and ose who Love Each other for the
    Sake of Allah
    51.4 What is commanded of seeking refuge in Allah
    51.5 ose who love each other in Allah
  52. VISIONS
    52.1 Visions
    52.2 Games of dice
  53. GREETINGS
    53.1 Behaviour in greeting
    53.2 Greeting Jews and Christians
    53.3 General section on the greeting
  54. GENERAL
    54.1 Asking permission to enter
    54.2 Blessing someone who sneezes
    54.3 Pictures and images
    54.4 Eating lizards
    54.5 Concerning dogs
    54.6 Concerning sheep
    54.7 Mice falling into clarified butter, and giving precedence to food over the prayer
    54.8 Guarding against ill luck
    54.9 Names that are disliked
    54.10 Cupping and the reward of the cupper
    54.11 Concerning the East
    54.12 Killing snakes and what is said about them
    54.13 What to say on journeys
    54.14 Travelling alone in the case of men and women
    54.15 How to behave on journeys
    54.16 e command to be kind to slaves
    54.17 A slave and his reward
  55. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
    55.1 About the oath of allegiance
  56. SPEECH
    56.1 Disliked speech
    56.2 The order to be mindful in speech
    56.3 Disliked speech and speech without the mention of Allah
    56.4 Backbiting
    56.5 What is feared from the tongue
    56.6 Two people conversing to the exclusion of another
    56.7 Truthfulness and lying
    56.8 Squandering property and being two-faced
    56.9 Punishing the many for the actions of the few
    56.10 About people with taqwā
    56.11 What to say when it thunders
    56.12 The legacy of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
  57. JAHANNAM
    57.1 Description of Jahannam
  58. ṢADAQA
    58.1 Stimulation of desire for ṣadaqa
    58.2 Refraining from asking
    58.3 What is disliked in ṣadaqa
  59. KNOWLEDGE
    59.1 Seeking Knowledge
    60 THE SUPPLICATION OF THE UNJUSTLY WRONGED
    60.1 Supplication of someone unjustly wronged
  60. THE NAMES OF THE PROPHET صلى الله عليه وسلم
    61.1 The names of the Prophet

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