Mercy in the Difference of the Four Sunni Schools of Islamic Law

Al-Qadi As-Safadi

Paperback

9781870582711

This book is the first translation into English of a well-known and widely used, six hundred year old classical Arabic text, Its author, Qadi Safadi of Damascus, designed it for his contemporaries as a reference book to acquaint the followers of the four schools of fiqh with the rulings of the other schools, so that needless antagonism and misunderstandings did not spring up out of ignorance and prejudice. The need for such a book is even more pressing in the present.

Contents

One: Purity

Two: The Prayer

Three: Funerals

Four: Zakat

Five: Fasting

Six: Hajj

Seven: Sacrifice by people not on Hajj

Eight: Vows

Nine: Permissible Foods

Ten: Slaughtering and Hunting

Eleven: Business Transactions

Twelve: Shares of Inheritance

Thirteen: Marriage

Fourteen: Divorce

Fifteen: Oaths

Sixteen: ‘Idda

Seventeen: Relationship by Suckling

Eighteen: Maintenance

Nineteen: Crimes Involving Injury

Twenty: Blood Money

Twenty-One: The Hard Punishments

Twenty-Two: Self-Defence and Liability for Animals

Twenty-Three: Military Expeditions

Twenty-Four: Appointment of a Qadi (judge)