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- Foreword
- Translator’s Preface
- Following a Jurist (Taqlīd)
- Taharat » Kurr water
- Taharat » Qalīl water
- Taharat » Flowing water
- Taharat » Rain Water
- Taharat » Well Water
- Taharat » Laws relating to the different types of water
- Taharat » Laws relating to emptying the bowels and the bladder
- Taharat » Clearing the male urethra of urine (istibrāʾ)
- Taharat » Recommended (mustaḥabb) and disapproved (makrūh) acts when emptying the bowels and the bladder
- Najis things » Impurities (najāsāt)
- Najis things » 1 & 2 Urine and faeces
- Najis things » 3. Semen
- Najis things » 4. Corpse
- Najis things » 5. Blood
- Najis things » 6. & 7. Dog and pig
- Najis things » 8. Disbeliever (kāfir)
- Najis things » 9. Wine
- Najis things » 10. Sweat of an excrement-eating animal
- Najis things » Ways of establishing impurity (najāsah)
- Najis things » How a pure (ṭāhir) object becomes impure (najis)
- Najis things » Laws of impurities (najāsāt)
- Najis things » Things that purify an impure object (muṭahhirāt)
- Mutahhirat » 1. Water
- Mutahhirat » 2. Earth
- Mutahhirat » 3. The sun
- Mutahhirat » 4. Transformation (istiḥālah)
- Mutahhirat » 5. Change (inqilāb)
- Mutahhirat » 6. Transfer (intiqāl)
- Mutahhirat » 7. Islam
- Mutahhirat » 8. Subsequence (tabaʿiyyah)
- Mutahhirat » 9. Removal of intrinsic impurity (ʿayn al-najāsah)
- Mutahhirat » 10. Istibrāʾ(1) of an excrement-eating animal
- Mutahhirat » 11. Absence of a Muslim
- Mutahhirat » 12. Flowing out of blood [of a slaughtered animal] in a normal quantity
- Mutahhirat » Laws of utensils
- Mutahhirat » Ablution (wuḍūʾ)
- Wudhu » Immersive ablution (al-wuḍūʾ al-irtimāsī)
- Wudhu » Recommended supplication (duʿāʾ) while performing wuḍūʾ(1)
- Wudhu » Conditions for the validity of wuḍūʾ
- Wudhu » Laws of wuḍūʾ
- Wudhu » Things for which one must perform wuḍūʾ
- Wudhu » Things that invalidate wuḍūʾ
- Wudhu » Laws of jabīrah wuḍūʾ
- Wudhu » Jabira Wudhu
- Obligatory (wājib) ritual bathing (ghusl) » Introduction
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Laws of ritual impurity (janābah)
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Things that are unlawful (ḥarām) for a junub
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Things that are disapproved (makrūh) for a junub
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » The ghusl for janābah
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Sequential ritual bathing (al-ghusl al-tartībī)
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Immersive ritual bathing (al-ghusl al-irtimāsī)
- Obligatory baths (Ghusl) » Laws of performing ghusl
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Irregular blood discharge (istiḥāḍah)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Laws of istiḥāḍah
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Menstruation (ḥayḍ)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Laws of a woman in menstruation (ḥāʾiḍ)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Categories of women in menstruation
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Miscellaneous rulings on ḥayḍ
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Lochia (nifās)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » The ghusl for touching a corpse (mass al-mayyit)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Laws relating to a dying person (muḥtaḍar)
- Kinds of blood seen by women » Laws relating to after death
- Ghusl for touching a dead body » The obligation to give ghusl, shroud (takfīn), pray over, camphorate (taḥnīṭ), and bury (dafn)
- Rules related to a dying person » Method of performing the ghusl given to a corpse (mayyit)
- Rules related to a dying person » Laws of shrouding (takfīn) a corpse
- Rules related to a dying person » Laws of camphorating (taḥnīṭ) a corpse
- Rules related to a dying person » Laws of the funeral prayer (ṣalāt al-mayyit)
- Rules related to a dying person » Method of performing ṣalāt al-mayyit
- Rules related to a dying person » Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts of ṣalāt al-mayyit
- Rules related to a dying person » Laws of burial (dafn)
- Rules related to a dying person » Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts of burial (dafn)
- Rules related to a dying person » The prayer of loneliness (ṣalāt al-waḥshah)
- Rules related to a dying person » Exhumation of a grave
- Rules related to a dying person » Recommended (mustaḥabb) ghusls
- Rules related to a dying person » Dry ablution (tayammum)
- Mustahab Ghusls » Things with which performing tayammum is valid (ṣaḥīḥ)
- Tayammum » Method of performing tayammum in place of wuḍūʾ or ghusl
- Tayammum » Laws of tayammum
- CHAPTER THREE » Prayer (Ṣalāh)
- Prayer (Ṣalāh) » The obligatory (wājib) prayers
- Rules of Namaz » The obligatory daily prayers
- Rules of Namaz » The time for the midday (ẓuhr) and afternoon (ʿaṣr) prayers
- Rules of Namaz » The Friday prayer (ṣalāt al-jumuʿah) and its laws
- Rules of Namaz » Some laws concerning the Friday prayer
- Rules of Namaz » The time for the prayer after sunset (maghrib) and the evening (ʿishāʾ) prayer
- Rules of Namaz » The time for the morning (ṣubḥ) prayer
- Rules of Namaz » Laws relating to the time of prayers
- Rules of Namaz » Prayers that must be performed in order
- Rules of Namaz » Recommended (mustaḥabb) prayers
- Rules of Namaz » Timings for the daily supererogatory (nāfilah) prayers
- Rules of Namaz » The ghufaylah prayer
- Rules of Namaz » Rules of qibla
- Rules of Namaz » Covering the body in prayers
- Rules of Namaz » Conditions of clothing worn by someone performing prayers
- Rules of Namaz » Cases when it is not necessary for the body and clothing of someone performing prayers to be pure
- Rules of Namaz » Things that are recommended (mustaḥabb) for the clothing of someone performing prayers
- Rules of Namaz » Things that are disapproved (makrūh) for the clothing of someone performing prayers
- Rules of Namaz »The place where prayers are performed
- Rules of Namaz » Places where performing prayers is recommended (mustaḥabb)
- Rules of Namaz » Places where performing prayers is disapproved (makrūh)
- Rules of Namaz » Laws of a mosque
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » The call to prayer (adhān) and the call to stand for prayer (iqāmah)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Obligatory components of the prayer
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Intention (niyyah)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Takbīrat al-iḥrām
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Standing (qiyām)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Recitation (qirāʾah)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Bowing (rukūʿ)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Prostrating (sujūd)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Things on which sajdah is permitted (jāʾiz)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Recommended (mustaḥabb) and disapproved (makrūh) acts of sajdah
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Obligatory (wājib) prostrations of the Qur’an
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Testifying (tashahhud)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Salutation (salām)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Sequence (tartīb)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Close succession (muwālāh)
- Obligatory acts relating to Namaz » Qunūt
- Things which invalidate prayers » Translation of prayers
- Things which invalidate prayers » Supplications after prayers (taʿqībāt)
- Things which invalidate prayers » Ṣalawāt
- Things which invalidate prayers » Things that invalidate (mubṭilāt) prayers
- Things which invalidate prayers » Things that are disapproved (makrūh) in prayers
- Things which invalidate prayers » Instances of when it is permitted (jāʾiz) to break an obligatory (wājib) prayer
- Things which invalidate prayers » Doubts that arise in prayers (shakkiyāt)
- Things which invalidate prayers » Doubts that invalidate prayers
- Things which invalidate prayers » Doubts that must be dismissed
- Things which invalidate prayers » Doubts that are valid (ṣaḥīḥ)
- Things which invalidate prayers » Method of performing the precautionary prayer (ṣalāt al-iḥtiyāṭ)
- Things which invalidate prayers » The Two prostrations for inadvertence (sajdatā al-sahw)
- Things which invalidate prayers » Method of performing sajdatā al-sahw
- Things which invalidate prayers » Making up (qaḍāʾ) a forgotten sajdah
- Things which invalidate prayers » Omitting or adding components or conditions of the prayer
- Things which invalidate prayers » Prayers of a traveller
- Things which invalidate prayers » Miscellaneous rulings on the prayer of a traveller
- Prayers of a traveller » Lapsed (qaḍāʾ) prayers
- Qadha prayers » Lapsed (qaḍāʾ) prayers of a father that are obligatory (wājib) on the eldest son
- Congregational prayers » Congregational prayers (ṣalāt al-jamāʿah)
- Congregational prayers » Conditions of the imam of congregational prayers
- Congregational prayers » Rules of congregational prayers
- Congregational prayers » Duties of the imam and the follower in congregational prayers
- Congregational prayers » Things that are disapproved (makrūh) in congregational prayers
- Congregational prayers » The prayer of signs (ṣalāt al-āyāt)
- Congregational prayers » Method of performing ṣalāt al-āyāt
- Congregational prayers » The Eid al-Fiṭr(1) & Eid al-Aḍḥā prayers(2)
- Qadha prayers » Hiring someone to perform prayers(1)
- CHAPTER FOUR » Fasting (Ṣawm)
- Fasting » Intention (niyyah)
- Fasting » Things that invalidate (mubṭilāt) a fast
- Fasting » Laws of things that invalidate a fast
- Fasting » Things that are disapproved (makrūh) for a fasting person to do
- Fasting » Times when it is obligatory (wājib) to both make up (qaḍāʾ) and give recompense (kaffārah)
- Fasting » Recompense (kaffārah) of a fast
- Fasting » Times when it is obligatory (wājib) to only make up (qaḍāʾ) a fast
- Fasting » Laws of a lapsed (qaḍāʾ) fast
- Fasting » Laws of fasting for a traveller
- Fasting » Those on whom fasting is not obligatory (wājib)
- Fasting » Ways of establishing the first of the month
- Fasting » Unlawful (ḥarām) and disapproved (makrūh) fasts
- Fasting » Recommended (mustaḥabb) fasts
- Fasting » Times when it is recommended (mustaḥabb) for one to abstain from things that invalidate a fast
- CHAPTER FIVE » Spiritual Retreat (Iʿtikāf)
- CHAPTER FIVE » Distribution of khums
- CHAPTER SEVEN » Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil
- CHAPTER EIGHT » Alms Tax (Zakat)
- CHAPTER SIX» The One-Fifth Tax (Khums)
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Conditions for zakat to become obligatory (wājib)
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Zakat of wheat, barley, and raisins
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » The taxable limit (niṣāb) for gold
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » The niṣāb for silver
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Zakat of camels, cows, and sheep
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Zakat on business goods
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Distribution of zakat
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Criteria for being entitled to receive (mustaḥiqq) zakat
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Intention (niyyah) for giving zakat
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Miscellaneous rulings on zakat
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » The fiṭrah alms tax (zakāt al-fiṭrah)
- Alms Tax (Zakat) » Distribution of zakāt al-fiṭrah
- Alms Tax (Zakat)» Miscellaneous rulings on zakāt al-fiṭrah
- CHAPTER NINE » Hajj(1)
- Chapter ten » Buying and Selling
- Chapter ten » Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts of buying and selling
- Chapter ten » Disapproved (makrūh) transactions
- Chapter ten » Unlawful (ḥarām) transactions
- Chapter ten » Conditions relating to the seller and the buyer
- Chapter ten » Conditions relating to the commodity and the payment in exchange
- Chapter ten » The transaction formula (ṣīghah)
- Chapter ten » Buying and selling fruit
- Chapter ten » Immediate exchange (naqd) and credit (nasīʾah) transactions
- Chapter ten » Prepayment (salaf) transaction and its conditions
- Chapter ten » Laws relating to prepayment (salaf) transactions
- Chapter ten » Selling gold and silver for gold and silver
- Chapter ten » Cases when a person can annul a transaction
- Chapter ten » Miscellaneous rulings
- Chapter eleven » Partnership (Shirkah)
- Chapter twelve » Settlement (Ṣulḥ)
- Chapter thirteen » Hiring/Renting (Ijārah)(1)
- Chapter thirteen » Conditions relating to the use of the property which is given on rent
- Chapter thirteen » Miscellaneous rulings on hiring/renting
- Chapter fourteen » Sleeping Partnership (Muḍārabah)
- Chapter fifteen » Reward (Juʿālah)
- Chapter sixteen » Sharecropping (Muzāraʿah)
- Chapter seventeen » Tree Tending Contract (Musāqāh) and Tree Planting Contract (Mughārasah)
- Chapter eighteen » Those who are Prohibited from having Disposal over their Property
- Chapter nineteen » Agency (Wikālah)
- Chapter twenty » Loan (Qarḍ)
- Chapter twenty-one » Transfer of Debt (Ḥawālah)
- Chapter twenty-two » Security (Rahn)(1)
- Chapter twenty-three » Suretyship (Ḍamān)
- Chapter twenty-four » Surety for the Appearance of a Debtor (Kafālah)
- Chapter twenty-five » Deposit (Wadīʿah) and Trust (Amānah)
- Chapter twenty-six » Gratuitous Loan (ʿĀriyah)
- Chapter twenty-seven » Marriage
- Chapter twenty-seven » The marriage contract
- Chapter twenty-seven » Method of saying the marriage contract formula (ṣīghah)
- Chapter twenty-seven » Conditions of a marriage contract
- Chapter twenty-seven » Situations in which a man and a woman can annul the marriage contract
- Chapter twenty-seven » Women with whom marriage is unlawful (ḥarām)
- Chapter twenty-seven » Laws of permanent marriage
- Chapter twenty-seven » Laws of temporary marriage (mutʿah)
- Chapter twenty-seven » Looking at non-maḥram
- Chapter twenty-seven » Miscellaneous rulings on marriage
- Chapter twenty-eight » Breastfeeding
- Chapter twenty-eight » Conditions for breastfeeding to cause someone to become maḥram
- Chapter twenty-eight » The etiquettes of breastfeeding
- Chapter twenty-eight » Miscellaneous rulings on breastfeeding
- Chapter twenty-nine » Divorce
- Chapter twenty-nine » The prescribed waiting period (ʿiddah) of a divorce
- Chapter twenty-nine » The ʿiddah of a woman whose husband has died
- Chapter twenty-nine » Irrevocable (bāʾin) and revocable (rijʿī) divorce
- Chapter twenty-nine » Laws of returning to one’s wife
- Chapter twenty-nine » Khulʿ divorce
- Chapter twenty-nine » Miscellaneous rulings on divorce
- Chapter thirty » Usurpation (Ghaṣb)
- Chapter thirty-one » Found Property
- Chapter thirty-two » Slaughtering and Hunting Animals
- Chapter thirty-two » Method of slaughtering an animal
- Chapter thirty-two » Conditions of slaughtering an animal
- Chapter thirty-two » Method of slaughtering a camel
- Chapter thirty-two » Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts when slaughtering an animal
- Chapter thirty-two » Disapproved (makrūh) acts when slaughtering an animal
- Chapter thirty-two » Laws relating to hunting with weapons
- Chapter thirty-two » Hunting with a hunting dog
- Chapter thirty-two » Fishing and hunting locusts
- Chapter thirty-three » Eating and Drinking
- Chapter thirty-three » Etiquettes of eating
- Chapter thirty-three » Things that are discouraged (madhmūm) when eating
- Chapter thirty-three » Etiquettes of drinking
- Chapter thirty-three » Things that are discouraged (madhmūm) when drinking
- Chapter thirty-four » Vow (Nadhr) and Covenant (ʿAhd)
- Chapter thirty-five » Oath (Qasam)
- Chapter thirty-six » Charitable Endowment (Waqf)
- Chapter thirty-seven » Will (Waṣiyyah)
- Chapter thirty-eight » Inheritance (Irth)
- Chapter thirty-eight » Inheritance of the first group
- Chapter thirty-eight » Inheritance of the second group
- Chapter thirty-eight » Inheritance of the third group
- Chapter thirty-eight » Inheritance of husband and wife
- Chapter thirty-eight » Miscellaneous rules of inheritance