Al-Muwatta’ of Imam Malik ibn Anas - English only

Introduction
	The lineage of Imām Mālik, his family, birth and autobiography
	His quest for knowledge
	People’s praise of him and their testimony that he was the greatest of the Imāms in knowledge
	The shaykhs from whom he transmitted
	The transmitters who transmitted from him
	The position of the Muwaṭṭa’ and people’s concern for it
	Clarification of the meaning of “Muwaṭṭa’”, its excellent layout and fine style
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 Wuḍū’ 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 adhān 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 ﷺ 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 The excellence of prayer standing over prayer sitting
	8.7 Praying voluntary prayers (nawāfil)
	8.8 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The prayer on the Prophet ﷺ
	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 The order to pray before the khuṭba on the two ‘Īds
	10.3 The order to eat before going out on the morning of the ‘Īd
	10.4 The 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 The 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 The prohibition of spitting towards the Qibla
	14.4 About the qibla
	14.5 The 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 The 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 The prohibition against following the bier with a burning torch
	16.5 The 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 The prayer over the dead in general
	16.10 Burying the dead
	16.11 Stopping for funerals and sitting in graveyards
	16.12 The 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 The 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 The 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 The ‘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 The 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 The 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 (The 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 The 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 Things 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 The 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 The animal to be sacrificed on account of intercourse in iḥrām
	20.49 The animal to be sacrificed on account of missing the ḥajj
	20.50 Intercourse before the Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa
	20.51 The sacrificial animals considered least difficult
	20.52 Sacrificial animals in general
	20.53 The wuqūf (standing) at ‘Arafa and Muzdalifa
	20.54 Wuqūf while not in wuḍū’, and wuqūf on a riding beast
	20.55 The 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 The 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 The Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa
	20.74 A menstruating woman’s entering Makka
	20.75 The Ṭawāf al-Ifāḍa of a menstruating woman
	20.76 The compensation (fidya) for killing birds and wild animals while in iḥrām
	20.77 The fidya for killing locusts in iḥrām
	20.78 The fidya for shaving the head before sacrificing
	20.79 Forgetfulness in the rituals
	20.80 Compensation (fidya) in general
	20.81 The ḥajj in general
	20.82 The 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 ﷺ after the death of the Messenger ﷺ
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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The marriage of idolators when their wives become Muslim before them
	28.21 The 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 pro-nouncement 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 The īlā’ (vow of abstention) of slaves
	29.8 Ẓihār of freemen
	29.9 Ẓihār done by slaves
	29.10 The option (of slave-girls married to slaves when freed)
	29.11 Separating from wives for compensation (khul‘)
	29.12 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The sale of ‘ariyyas
	31.10 The 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 The 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 The 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 ḥadd-punishments
	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 The 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 The 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 The labour of mukātabs
	39.7 Freeing a mukātab on payment of his due before its term
	39.8 The inheritance of a mukātab on emancipation
	39.9 Conditions concerning mukātabs
	39.10 The 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 The ḥadd for slander, denial of paternity and insinuation
	41.6 That for which there is no ḥadd punishment
	41.7 That 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 Things for which the hand is not cut off
42. Drinks
	42.1 The ḥadd punishment for drinking wine
	42.2 Containers forbidden for preparation of nabīdh
	42.3 Mixtures of fruit disapproved for making nabīdh
	42.4 The 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 The blood-money for murder when accepted, and the criminal act of the insane
	43.4 The blood-money for manslaughter
	43.5 The blood-money for accidental injury
	43.6 The blood-money for women
	43.7 The blood-money for the foetus
	43.8 Injuries for which there is full blood-money
	43.9 The blood-money for an eye whose sight is lost
	43.10 The blood-money for head wounds
	43.11 The 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 The blood-money for injuries to slaves
	43.15 The 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 The 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 The epidemic of Madīna
	45.5 The expulsion of the Jews from Madīna
	45.6 Concerning Madīna
	45.7 About the plague
46. The Decree
	46.1 The 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 ﷺ
	49.1 Description of the Prophet ﷺ
	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 The very poor
	49.6 The intestines of the unbeliever
	49.7 Prohibition against drinking from silver vessels and blowing into drinks
	49.8 Drinking while standing
	49.9 The 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 The sunna regarding hair
	51.2 Caring for hair
	51.3 Dyeing the hair
	Chapters on Seeking Refuge and Those who Love Each other for the Sake of Allah
	51.4 What is commanded of seeking refuge in Allah
	51.5 Those 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 The 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 ﷺ
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
61. The Names of the Prophet ﷺ
	61.1 The names of the Prophet ﷺ
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