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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