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)