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'''''Fiqh''''' ({{IPAc-en|f|iː|k}};<ref>. '']''.</ref> {{langx|ar|فقه}}) is ]ic ].<ref name="Fiqh"> Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> ''Fiqh'' is often described as the style of human understanding and practices of the ];<ref name=vogel>{{cite book|last=Vogel|first=Frank E.|title=Islamic Law and the Legal System of Saudí: Studies of Saudi Arabia|date=2000|publisher=Brill|pages=4–5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-PfDuvnHMGoC&q=vogel+islamic+law|isbn=9004110623}}</ref> that is, human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the ] and the ] (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet ] and his companions). Fiqh expands and develops Shariah through interpretation ('']'') of the Quran and ''Sunnah'' by Islamic jurists ('']'')<ref name=vogel/> and is implemented by the rulings ('']'') of jurists on questions presented to them. Thus, whereas ''sharia'' is considered immutable and infallible by Muslims, ''fiqh'' is considered fallible and changeable. ''Fiqh'' deals with the observance of rituals, morals and social legislation in Islam as well as economic and political system. In the modern era, there are four prominent schools ('']'') of ''fiqh'' within ] practice, plus two (or three) within ] practice. A person trained in ''fiqh'' is known as a '']'' ({{plural form}}: ''fuqaha'').<ref>Glasse, Cyril, ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'', Altamira, 2001, p. 141</ref> | ||
Figuratively, ''fiqh'' means knowledge about Islamic legal rulings from their sources. Deriving religious rulings from their sources requires the '']'' (an individual who exercises ''ijtihad'') to have a deep understanding in the different discussions of jurisprudence. | |||
''Fiqh'' deals with the observance of rituals, morals and social legislation in Islam. In the modern era, there are four prominent schools ('']'') of ''fiqh'' within ] practice, plus two (or three) within ] practice. A person trained in ''fiqh'' is known as a '']'' (plural ''Fuqaha'').<ref>Glasse, Cyril, ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'', Altamira, 2001, p.141</ref> | |||
The studies of ''fiqh'', are traditionally divided into ''Uṣūl al-fiqh'' (], lit. the roots of fiqh, alternatively transliterated as ''Usool al-fiqh''), the methods of legal interpretation and analysis; and ''Furūʿ al-fiqh'' (lit. the branches of fiqh), the elaboration of rulings on the basis of these principles.{{sfn|Calder|2009}}{{sfn|Schneider|2014}} ''Furūʿ al-fiqh'' is the product of the application of ''Uṣūl al-fiqh'' and the total product of human efforts at understanding the divine will. A '']'' ({{plural form}}: ''aḥkām'') is a particular ruling in a given case. | |||
== Etymology == | == Etymology == | ||
The word ''fiqh'' is an Arabic term meaning "deep understanding"<ref name="Modarresi">{{cite book|author=Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi|author-link=Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi|title=The Laws of Islam|date=26 March 2016|publisher=Enlight Press|isbn=978-0994240989|url=http://almodarresi.com/en/books/pdf/TheLawsofIslam.pdf|access-date=22 December 2017|ref=Modarresi|language=en|archive-date=2 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802163247/http://almodarresi.com/en/books/pdf/TheLawsofIslam.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|470}} or "full comprehension". Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources (which are studied in the ]) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence. The historian ] describes ''fiqh'' as "knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves connected to obey the law respecting what is required ('']''), sinful ('']''), recommended ('']''), disapproved ('']''), or neutral ('']'')".<ref>Levy (1957). p. 150.</ref> This definition is consistent amongst the jurists. | |||
In ], ''fiqh'' has also come to mean Islamic jurisprudence.<ref>{{Cite book|last=أنیس|first=إبراهیم|title=المعجم الوسیط|publisher=دارالفکر|year=1998|location=بیروت، لبنان|pages=731}}</ref> It is not thus possible to speak of ] ] as an expert in the ] ''fiqh'' of the ], or of ]ian legal scholar ] as an expert in the civil law ''fiqh'' of Egypt. | |||
==History== | |||
{{main article|Sharia}} | |||
{{further information|History of Islamic economics}} | |||
According to Sunni Islamic history, Sunni law followed a chronological path of: | |||
*] → ] → ] → ] → ''Fiqh''.<ref name="Maghen-2003">{{cite journal|last1=Maghen|first1=Ze'ev|title=Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht and the Origins of "Popular Practice"|journal=Islamic Law and Society|date=2003|volume=10|issue=3|pages=276–347|doi=10.1163/156851903770227575|jstor=3399422}}</ref> | |||
The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and examples of the Prophet passed down as ]). | |||
The first Muslims (the ] or Companions) heard and obeyed, and passed this essence of Islam<ref name=GRHJWIaM2000:513/> to succeeding generations ('']'' and '']'' or successors/followers and successors of successors), as Muslims and Islam spread from West Arabia to the conquered lands north, east, and west,<ref name=RGHIGP2015:223>]: p.223</ref>{{#tag:ref|for example, Sunni ] scholar/preacher ] (d.941) who ruled the streets of Baghdad from 921-941 CE, insisted that "whoever asserts that there is any part of Islam with which the Companions of the Prophet did not provide us has called them liars".<ref name=cook-2000-109>{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Michael|title=The Koran : A Very Short Introduction|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/koranveryshorti00cook |url-access=registration|isbn=0192853449|page=}}</ref>|group=Note}} where it was systematized and elaborated.<ref name=GRHJWIaM2000:513>]: p.513</ref> | |||
The history of Islamic jurisprudence is "customarily divided into eight periods":<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1>]: pp. 30–31</ref> | |||
*the first period ending with the death of ] in 11 AH.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
*second period "characterized by personal interpretations" of the canon by the '']'' or companions of Muhammad, lasting until 50 AH.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
*from 50 AH until the early second century AH there was competition between "a traditionalist approach to jurisprudence" in ] where Islam was revealed and a "rationalist approach in Iraq".<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
*the "golden age of classical Islamic jurisprudence" from the "early second to the mid-fourth century when the ] schools of Sunni and ] jurisprudence emerged."<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
*from the mid-fourth century to mid-seventh AH Islamic jurisprudence was "limited to elaborations within the main juristic schools".<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
*the "dark age" of Islamic jurisprudence stretched from the ] in the mid-seventh AH (1258 CE) to 1293 AH/1876 CE. | |||
*In 1293 AH (1876 CE) the Ottomans codified ] jurisprudence in the '']''. Several "juristic revival movements" influenced by "exposure to Western legal and technological progress" followed until the mid-20th century CE. ] and ] were products of this era.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> However, Abduh and El-Sanhuri were modernists. 19th century Ottoman Shariah Code was built on the views of the Hanafi school. | |||
*The most recent era has been that of the "]", which has been "predicated on rejection of Western social and legal advances" and the development of specifically Islamic states, social sciences, economics, and finance.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
The formative period of Islamic jurisprudence stretches back to the time of the early Muslim communities. During this period, jurists were more concerned with issues of authority and teaching than with theory and methodology.<ref name="Weiss (2002)">Weiss, Bernard G. (2002). ''Studies in Islamic Legal Theory'', edited by ], (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002. pp. 3, 161.)</ref> | |||
Progress in theory and methodology happened with the coming of the early Muslim jurist ] (767–820), who codified the basic principles of Islamic jurisprudence in his book ''ar-Risālah''. The book details the four roots of law (], ], '']'', and '']'') while specifying that the primary Islamic texts (the Qur'an and the hadith) be understood according to objective rules of interpretation derived from scientific study of the Arabic language.<ref name=weiss-162>Weiss, Bernard G. (2002). ''Studies in Islamic Legal Theory'', edited by Bernard G. Weiss, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002. p. 162.)</ref> | |||
Secondary sources of law were developed and refined over the subsequent centuries, consisting primarily of juristic preference ('']''), laws of the previous prophets ('']''), continuity ('']''), extended analogy ('']''), blocking the means ('']''), local customs ('']''), and sayings of a companion of the Prophet ('']'').<ref name="Nyazee (2000)">Nyazee, Imran Ahsan Khan (2000). ''Islamic Jurisprudence (UsulAI-Fiqh)''. Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute Press.</ref> | |||
=== Diagram of early scholars === | |||
The word ''fiqh'' is an Arabic term meaning "deep understanding" or "full comprehension". Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources (which are studied in the ]) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence. The historian ] describes ''fiqh'' as "knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves bound to obey the law respecting what is required ('']''), sinful ('']''), recommended ('']''), disapproved ('']'') or neutral ('']'')".<ref>Levy (1957). Page 150.</ref> This definition is consistent amongst the jurists. | |||
] | |||
In ], ''fiqh'' has come to mean jurisprudence in general, be it Islamic or secular. It is thus possible to speak of ] ] as an expert in the ] ''fiqh'' of the ], or of Abdel Razzaq El sanhouri Pasha as an expert in the civil law ''fiqh'' of ]. | |||
The Quran set the rights, responsibilities, and rules for people and societies to adhere to, such as dealing in ]. Muhammad then provided an example, which is recorded in the hadith books, showing people how he practically implemented these rules in a society. After the passing of Muhammad, there was a need for jurists, to decide on new legal matters where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the hadith, example of Muhammad regarding a similar case.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMxjJqurmiAC&q=development+of+schools+of+thought+hanifa&pg=PA30|title=Islam Vs. West|isbn=9780595501571|last1=Asadulla|first1=Abubakr|year=2009|publisher=iUniverse }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=es9Sunv_y2MC&q=development+of+schools+of+thought+hanifa&pg=PA20|title=Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism|isbn=9781841135014|last1=Rehman|first1=Javaid|date=7 June 2005|publisher=Hart }}</ref> | |||
== Introduction == | |||
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The ] gives clear instructions on many issues, such as how to perform the ritual purification (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') before the obligatory daily prayers (''{{lang|ar|]}}''), but on other issues, some Muslims believe the Qur'an alone is not enough to make things clear. For example, the Qur'an states one needs to engage in daily prayers (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') and fast (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') during the ] but Muslims believe they need further instructions on how to perform these duties. Details about these issues can be found in the traditions of Muhammad, so ] are in most cases the basis for (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). | |||
In the years proceeding Muhammad, the community in Madina continued to use the same rules. People were familiar with the practice of Muhammad and therefore continued to use the same rules. | |||
Some topics are without precedent in Islam's early period. In those cases, Muslim jurists (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') try to arrive at conclusions by other means. ] jurists use historical consensus of the community (''{{lang|ar|]}}''); a majority in the modern era also use ] (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') and weigh the harms and benefits of new topics (''{{lang|ar|]}}''), and a plurality utilize juristic preference (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). The conclusions arrived at with the aid of these additional tools constitute a wider array of laws than the Sharia consists of, and is called '''fiqh'''. Thus, in contrast to the ''sharia'', ''fiqh'' is not regarded as ] and the schools of thought have differing views on its details, without viewing other conclusions as ]. This division of interpretation in more detailed issues has resulted in different schools of thought (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). | |||
The scholars appearing in the diagram below were taught by ], many of whom settled in Madina.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/ulama.html|title=ulama|website=bewley.virtualave.net|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-date=21 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021231627/http://bewley.virtualave.net/ulama.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> '']''<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net">{{Cite web|url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/muwcont.html|title=Muwatta|website=bewley.virtualave.net|access-date=13 November 2023|archive-date=13 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013110055/http://bewley.virtualave.net/muwcont.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> by ] was written as a consensus of the opinion, of these scholars.<ref name="Coulson">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Ks31qHlSYC&q=coulson+history+islamic+law|title=A History of Islamic Law|isbn=9780748605149|last1=Coulson|first1=Noel James|year=1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Va6oSxzojzoC&q=Muwatta+consensus+of+the+opinions+scholars&pg=PA207|title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936|isbn=9004097910|last1=Houtsma|first1=M. Th|year=1993|publisher=BRILL }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wUAAAAIAAJ&q=Muwatta+consensus+of+the+opinions+scholars&pg=PA264|title=Studies in Islamic History and Civilization|isbn=9789652640147|last1=Šārôn|first1=Moše|year=1986|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> ''Muwatta''<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net"/> by Malik ibn Anas quotes 13 hadiths from Imam ].<ref name="Muwatta">''Al-Muwatta'' of Imam Malik Ibn Anas, translated by Aisha Bewley (Book #5, Hadith #5.9.23) (Book #16, Hadith #16.1.1) (Book #17, Hadith #17.24.43) (Book #20, Hadith #20.10.40) (Book #20, Hadith #20.11.44) (Book #20, Hadith #20.32.108) (Book #20, Hadith #20.39.127) (Book #20, Hadith #20.40.132) (Book #20, Hadith #20.49.167) (Book #20, Hadith #20.57.190) (Book #26, Hadith #26.1.2) (Book #29, Hadith #29.5.17) (Book #36, Hadith #36.4.5) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013110055/http://bewley.virtualave.net/muwcont.html |date=13 October 2010 }}</ref> | |||
Aisha also taught her nephew ]. He then taught his son ], who was the main teacher of ] whose views many Sunni follow and also taught by Jafar al-Sadiq. ], Hisham ibn Urwah and Muhammad al-Baqir taught ], Jafar al-Sadiq, ], and Malik ibn Anas. | |||
Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, Imam Abu Hanifa and Malik ibn Anas worked together in ] in Medina. Along with Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Muhammad al-Baqir, Zayd ibn Ali and over 70 other leading jurists and scholars. | |||
] was taught by Malik ibn Anas. ] was taught by Al-Shafi‘i. ] travelled everywhere collecting hadith and his father ] was a student of Malik ibn Anas.<ref name="Islam Page 67">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlGgGVCp0UcC&q=aisha+and+qasim+ibn+muhammad&pg=PA67|title=Understanding Women in Islam|isbn=9789793780191|last1=Hasyim|first1=Syafiq|year=2006|publisher=Equinox }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdjtUTYSL1UC&q=aisha+and+qasim+ibn+muhammad&pg=PA37|title=Classical Islam|isbn=9780415240321|last1=Calder|first1=Norman|last2=Mojaddedi|first2=Jawid Ahmad|last3=Rippin|first3=Andrew|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlqeC1ZFAUEC&q=aisha+and+qasim&pg=PT101|title=Judaism and Islam in Practice|isbn=9781134605538|last1=Brockopp|first1=Jonathan E.|last2=Neusner|first2=Jacob|last3=Sonn|first3=Tamara|date=27 September 2005|publisher=Routledge }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/mutmainaa7/people/jafar_al_sadiq.html|title=Jafar Al-Sadiq}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ziaraat.org/jafar.php|title=IMAM JAFAR BIN MUHAMMAD AS-SADIQ (AS)|website=www.ziaraat.org|access-date=13 November 2023|archive-date=22 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822202122/http://www.ziaraat.org/jafar.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
{{Islam scholars diagram}} | |||
In the books actually written by these original jurists and scholars, there are very few theological and judicial differences between them. Imam Ahmad rejected the writing down and codifying of the religious rulings he gave. They knew that they might have fallen into error in some of their judgements and stated this clearly. They never introduced their rulings by saying, "Here, this judgement is the judgement of God and His prophet."<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4OKaz5dzdYC&q=Modernist+Islam,+1840-1940:+A+Sourcebook+By+Charles+Kurzman|title=Modernist Islam, 1840–1940|isbn=9780195154689|last1=Kurzman|first1=Charles|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> There is also very little text actually written down by Jafar al-Sadiq himself. They all give priority to the Qur'an and the hadith (the practice of Muhammad). They felt that the Quran and the Hadith, the example of Muhammad provided people with almost everything they needed. "This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion" (Qur'an 5:3).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://quran.com/5/3 |title=Surat Al-Ma'idah - The Noble Qur'an - القرآن الكريم |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925005700/http://quran.com/5/3 |archive-date=25 September 2013 |df=dmy }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141107/http://irebd.com/quran/english/surah-5/verse-3/ |date=12 June 2018 }}</ref> | |||
These scholars did not distinguish between each other. They were not Sunni or Shia. They felt that they were following the religion of Abraham as described in the Quran "Say: Allah speaks the truth; so follow the religion of Abraham, the upright one. And he was not one of the polytheists" (Qur'an 3:95). | |||
Most of the differences are regarding Sharia laws devised through ] where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the hadiths of Islamic prophet Muhammad regarding a similar case.<ref name="books.google.co.uk"/> As these jurists went to new areas, they were pragmatic and continued to use the same ruling as was given in that area during pre-Islamic times, if the population felt comfortable with it, it was just and they used Ijtihad to deduce that it did not conflict with the Quran or the Hadith. As explained in the ''Muwatta''<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net"/> by Malik ibn Anas.<ref name="Coulson"/> This made it easier for the different communities to integrate into the Islamic State and assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State. | |||
To reduce the divergence, ] proposed giving priority to the Qur'an and the Hadith (the practice of Muhammad) and only then look at the consensus of the Muslim jurists ('']'') and analogical reasoning ('']'').<ref name="Coulson"/> This then resulted in jurists like Muhammad al-Bukhari<ref name="sahih-bukhari.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.sahih-bukhari.com/|title=Sahih Bukhari : Read, Study, Search Online|first=Sahih|last=Bukhari}}</ref> dedicating their lives to the collection of the correct hadith, in books like ] (Sahih translates as authentic or correct). They also felt that Muhammad's judgement was more impartial and better than their own. | |||
These original jurists and scholars also acted as a counterbalance to the rulers. When they saw injustice, all these scholars spoke out against it. As the state expanded outside Madina, the rights of the different communities, as they were constituted in the ] still applied. The Quran also gave additional rights to the citizens of the state and these rights were also applied. Ali, Hassan and ] gave their allegiance to the first three caliphs because they abided by these conditions. Later ] the fourth caliph wrote in a letter "I did not approach the people to get their oath of allegiance but they came to me with their desire to make me their Amir (ruler). I did not extend my hands towards them so that they might swear the oath of allegiance to me but they themselves extended their hands towards me."<ref>Nahj ul Balagha Letter 54</ref> But later as fate would have it (]) when ], an ] ruler took power, Husayn ibn Ali the grandson of Muhammad felt that it was a test from God for him and his duty to confront him. Then ], Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr's cousin confronted the Umayyad rulers after Husayn ibn Ali was betrayed by the people of Kufa and killed by Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the Yazid I.<ref>Najeebabadi, Akbar Shah (2001). The History of Islam V.2. Riyadh: Darussalam. p. 110. {{ISBN|9960-892-88-3}}.</ref> Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr then took on the Umayyads and expelled their forces from Hijaz and Iraq. But then his forces were depleted in Iraq, trying to stop the Khawarij. The Umayyads then moved in. After a lengthy campaign, in his last hour Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr asked his mother ] the daughter of ] the first caliph for advice. Asma' bint Abu Bakr replied to her son, she said:<ref name="ummah.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ummah.com/forum/forum/general/the-lounge/356138-the-advice-of-asmaa-bint-abu-bakr-ra-to-her-son-abdullah-ibn-zubair-ra|title=The Advice of Asmaa bint Abu Bakr (ra) to her son Abdullah Ibn Zubair (ra)|website=Ummah.com - Muslim Forum|access-date=20 September 2021|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225220953/https://www.ummah.com/forum/forum/general/the-lounge/356138-the-advice-of-asmaa-bint-abu-bakr-ra-to-her-son-abdullah-ibn-zubair-ra|url-status=dead}}</ref> "You know better in your own self, that if you are upon the truth and you are calling towards the truth go forth, for people more honourable than you have been killed and if you are not upon the truth, then what an evil son you are and you have destroyed yourself and those who are with you. If you say, that if you are upon the truth and you will be killed at the hands of others, then you will not truly be free." Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr left and was later also killed and crucified by the Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the Umayyads and led by Hajjaj. ] the son of Abu Bakr the first caliph and raised by Ali the fourth caliph was also killed by the Umayyads.<ref>Nahj al-Balagha Sermon 71, Letter 27, Letter 34, Letter 35</ref> ] then raised and taught her son Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr who later taught his grandson Jafar al-Sadiq. | |||
]'', is the largest printed Fiqh Encyclopedia; it took 40 years to complete and was later translated into Urdu, Tamil, Persian, Malay & Bengali language.]] | |||
During the early Umayyad period, there was more community involvement. The Quran and Muhammad's example was the main source of law after which the community decided. If it worked for the community, was just and did not conflict with the Quran and the example of Muhammad, it was accepted. This made it easier for the different communities, with Roman, Persian, Central Asia and North African backgrounds to integrate into the Islamic State and that assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State. The scholars in Madina were consulted on the more complex judicial issues. The Sharia and the official more centralized schools of fiqh developed later, during the time of the Abbasids.<ref name="ReferenceB">Muawiya Restorer of the Muslim Faith By Aisha Bewley p. 68</ref> | |||
==Components== | |||
{{see|Principles of Islamic jurisprudence}} | |||
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The sources of ] in order of importance are | |||
<br>Primary sources | |||
#] | |||
#] | |||
Secondary sources<br> | |||
:3. ], i.e. collective reasoning and consensus amongst authoritative Muslims of a particular generation, and its interpretation by Islamic scholars.<br> | |||
:4. ], i.e. independent legal reasoning by Islamic jurists.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rashīd Riḍā |first=Muhammad |title=The Muhammadan Revelation |publisher=Al-Saadawi Publications |year=1996 |isbn=1-881963-55-1 | location=Alexandria, VA |pages=127}}</ref><ref name="overview">{{cite book|editor1-first=Hisham M. |editor1-last=Ramadan|author1=Irshad Abdel Haqq|author-link1=Islamic law: An Overview of Its Origins and Elements|title=Understanding Islamic Law: From Classical to Contemporary|year=2006|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=9780759109919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZS7EaHTQX8C&q=Islamic+law%3A+An+Overview+of+Its+Origins+and+Elements&pg=PA1 |access-date=17 August 2016}}</ref> | |||
Majority of ] view '']'' as a central Pillar of '']''.<ref name="overview"/> On the other hand; ]tes, ], ], early ], etc. rejected ''Qiyas'' amongst the Sunnis. Similarly, the '']'' jurists almost unanimously reject both pure reason and analogical reason; viewing both these methods as subjective.<ref>{{Cite book|last=B. Hallaq |first=Wael |title=THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF ISLAMIC LAW |publisher=] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-521-80332-8 | location=Cambridge, UK |pages=124, 127}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lucas|first1=Scott C.|title=The Legal Principles of Muhammad B. Ismāʿīl Al-Bukhārī and Their Relationship to Classical Salafi Islam|journal=Islamic Law and Society|date=2006|volume=13|issue=3|page=292|doi=10.1163/156851906778946341}}</ref><ref>Mansoor Moaddel, ''Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse'', pg. 32. ]: ], 2005.</ref> | |||
The ] gives clear instructions on many issues, such as how to perform the ritual purification (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') before the obligatory daily prayers (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). On other issues, for example, the Qur'an states one needs to engage in daily prayers (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') and fast (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') during the ] but further instructions and details on how to perform these duties can be found in the traditions of Muhammad, so ] are in most cases the basis for (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). | |||
Some topics are without precedent in Islam's early period. In those cases, Muslim jurists (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') try to arrive at conclusions by other means. ] jurists use historical consensus of the community (''{{lang|ar|]}}''); a majority in the modern era also use ] (''{{lang|ar|]}}'') and weigh the harms and benefits of new topics (''{{lang|ar|]}}''), and a plurality utilizes juristic preference (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). The conclusions arrived at with the aid of these additional tools constitute a wide array of laws, and its application is called '''fiqh'''. Thus, in contrast to the ''sharia'', ''fiqh'' is not regarded as ] and the schools of thought have differing views on its details, without viewing other conclusions as ]. This division of interpretation in more detailed issues has resulted in different schools of thought (''{{lang|ar|]}}''). | |||
This wider concept of '''Islamic jurisprudence''' is the source of a range of laws in different topics that guide Muslims in everyday life. | This wider concept of '''Islamic jurisprudence''' is the source of a range of laws in different topics that guide Muslims in everyday life. | ||
== Component categories == | === Component categories === | ||
Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') covers two main areas: | Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') covers two main areas: | ||
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# Worship (]) | # Worship (]) | ||
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Rules in relation to actions ('''amaliyya'' — عملية) comprise: | Rules in relation to actions ('''amaliyya'' — عملية) or "]" comprise: | ||
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=== Methodologies of jurisprudence === | ||
{{main article|Principles of Islamic jurisprudence}} | |||
The ] of the Muslim jurist is known as '']'' ("principles of jurisprudence"). | |||
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There are different approaches to the methodology used in jurisprudence to derive Islamic rulings from the primary sources of '']'' (Islamic law). The main methodologies are those of the ], ] and ] denominations. While both Sunni and ] (Shia) are divided into smaller sub-schools, the differences among the Shi'ite schools is considerably greater. Ibadites only follow a single school without divisions. | |||
;Fatawa | |||
While using court decisions as legal precedents and ] are central to Western law, the importance of the institution of fatawa (non-binding answers by Islamic legal scholars to legal questions) has been called "central to the development" of Islamic jurisprudence.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:32>]: p. 32</ref> This is in part because of a "vacuum" in the other source of Islamic law, ''qada`'' (legal rulings by state appointed Islamic judges) after the fall of the last ] the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> While the practice in Islam dates back to the time of Muhammad, according to at least one source (Muhammad El-Gamal), it is "modeled after the ] system of '']''," and gives the questioner "decisive primary-mover advantage in choosing the question and its wording."<ref name=MAEGIFLEP2006:30-1/> | |||
;Arguments for and against reform | |||
Each school ('']'') reflects a unique '']'' or culture (a cultural practice that was influenced by traditions), that the classical jurists themselves lived in, when rulings were made. Some suggest that the discipline of '']'', which developed to validate ''hadith'' made it relatively easy to record and validate also the rulings of jurists. This, in turn, made them far easier to imitate ('']'') than to challenge in new contexts. The argument is, the schools have been more or less frozen for centuries, and reflect a culture that simply no longer exists. Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions. | |||
Early '']'' had a much more flexible character, and some modern Muslim scholars believe that it should be renewed, and that the classical jurists should lose special status. This would require formulating a new fiqh suitable for the modern world, e.g. as proposed by advocates of the ], which would deal with the modern context. This modernization is opposed by most conservative '']''. Traditional scholars hold that the laws are contextual and consider circumstance such as time, place and culture, the principles they are based upon are universal such as justice, equality and respect. Many Muslim scholars argue that even though technology may have advanced, the fundamentals of human life have not. | |||
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== Schools of jurisprudence == | === Schools of jurisprudence === | ||
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The schools of ] Islam are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them. The ] schools (and where they are commonly found) are | |||
The schools of ] Islam are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them. The ] schools (and where they are commonly found) are | |||
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*] ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Lakhani |first=M. Ali |title=Faith and Ethics: The Vision of the Ismaili Imamat |page=4 |quote=The place of the Ismailis within the theological pluralism of the Muslim community is best summarised by their Imam's statement to the International Islamic Conference held in Amman in July 2005: "Our historic adherence is to the Ja'fari madhhab and other madhahib of close affinity, and it continues, under the leadership of the hereditary Ismaili Imam of the time. This adherence is in harmony also with our acceptance of Sufi principles of personal search and balance between the zahir and the spirit or the intellect which the zahir signifies." |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2017 |isbn=978-1786733900}}</ref> (minority communities in ], ], ], ], and ]) | |||
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Entirely separate from both the Sunni and Shia traditions, ] Islam has evolved its own distinct school. | Entirely separate from both the Sunni and Shia traditions, ] Islam has evolved its own distinct school. | ||
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These schools share many of their rulings, but differ on the particular ]s they accept as authentic and the weight they give to analogy or reason (]) in deciding difficulties. | These schools share many of their rulings, but differ on the particular ]s they accept as authentic and the weight they give to analogy or reason (]) in deciding difficulties. | ||
The relationship between (at least the Sunni) schools of jurisprudence and the conflict between the unity of the Shariah and the diversity of the schools, was expressed by the 12th century Hanafi scholar ], who wrote: "Our school is correct with the possibility of error, and another school is in error with the possibility of being correct."<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Brown|first1 = Jonathan A.C.|author-link = Jonathan A.C. Brown|title = Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy|date = 2014|publisher = ]|isbn = 978-1780744209|url = https://archive.org/details/misquotingmuhamm0000brow/page/50|access-date = 4 June 2018|ref = JACBMM2014|pages = }}</ref> | |||
== Methodologies of jurisprudence == | |||
{{main|Usul al-fiqh}} | |||
== Influence on Western laws == | |||
The ] of the Muslim jurist is known as '']'' ("principles of jurisprudence"). | |||
{{main article|Sharia#Classic Islamic law|l1=Sharia: Classic Islamic law}} | |||
A number of important legal ]s were developed by Muslim jurists during the classical period of Islam, known as the ]. One such institution was the '']'', an early ], which is mentioned in texts of Islamic jurisprudence as early as the 8th century. ''Hawala'' itself later influenced the development of the ] in ] and in ] such as the ''aval'' in ] and the ''avallo'' in ] law.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Islamic Law: Its Relation to Other Legal Systems |first=Gamal Moursi |last=Badr |journal=The American Journal of Comparative Law |volume=26 |issue=2 – Proceedings of an International Conference on Comparative Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, 24–25 February 1977 |date=Spring 1978 |pages=187–198 |doi=10.2307/839667 |publisher=American Society of Comparative Law |jstor=839667}}</ref> | |||
There are different approaches to the methodology used in jurisprudence to derive Islamic law from the primary sources. The main methodologies are those of the ], ] and ] denominations. While both Sunni and Shi'ite are divided into smaller sub-schools, the differences among the Shi'ite schools is considerably greater. Ibadites only follow a single school without divisions. | |||
The '']'' in ], which developed during the 7th–9th centuries, bears a notable resemblance to the ] in the English ].<ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988}}</ref> For example, every ''Waqf'' was required to have a ''waqif'' (settlor), ''mutawillis'' (trustee), '']'' (judge) and beneficiaries.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988|pp=1237–40}}</ref> The trust law developed in ] at the time of the ], during the 12th and 13th centuries, was introduced by Crusaders who may have been influenced by the ''Waqf'' institutions they came across in the ].<ref>{{Harvnb|Hudson|2003|p=32}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988|pp=1244–45}}</ref> | |||
===Sunni jurisprudence=== | |||
{{Sunni Islam|Sunni Schools of Law}} | |||
In classical Islamic jurisprudence, litigants in court may obtain ] statements from between three and twelve witnesses. When the statements of all witnesses are consistent, the notaries will certify their unanimous testimony in a legal document, which may be used to support the litigant's claim.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Justice of Islam|page=7-9|author=Lawrence Rosen|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780198298847}}</ref> The notaries serve to free the ] from the time-consuming task of hearing the testimony of each eyewitness himself, and their documents serve to legally authenticate each oral testimony.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts|year=2010|publisher=University of Chicago Press|author=Ron Shaham|page=4-8|isbn=9780226749358}}</ref> The ] school requires two notaries to collect a minimum of twelve eyewitness statements in certain legal cases, including those involving unregistered marriages and land disputes.<ref>{{cite book|title=Positive Law from the Muslim World|author=Baudouin Dupret|year=2021|isbn=9781108960137|page=205-210|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East|year=1985|page=54-64|editor=Ann Elizabeth Mayer|publisher=] Press|isbn=9780873959889}}</ref> John Makdisi has compared this group of twelve witness statements, known as a ''lafif'', to ] jury trials under ], surmising a link between the king's reforms and the legal system of the ]. The island had previously been ruled by various Islamic dynasties.<ref name="Rodhan">{{cite book |last1=Al-Rodhan |first1=Nayef R. F. |title=The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations |date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-39320-2 |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4OpT4ZP278C |access-date=25 May 2020 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Makdisi">{{cite journal |last1=Makdisi |first1=John |title=The Islamic Origins of the Common Law |journal=North Carolina Law Review |date=1 June 1999 |volume=77 |issue=5 |pages=1635 |url=https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol77/iss5/2/ |access-date=25 May 2020}}</ref> | |||
] ] of jurisprudence are each named after the classical jurist who taught them. The four primary Sunni schools are the ], ], ] and ] rites. The ] school remains in existence but outside of the mainstream, while the ], ], ] and ] have become extinct. | |||
Several other fundamental ] institutions may have been adapted from similar legal institutions in ] and jurisprudence, and introduced to England by the ] after the ] and the Emirate of Sicily, and by Crusaders during the ]. In particular, the "royal English ] protected by the action of ] is identified with the Islamic ''Aqd'', the English ] is identified with the Islamic ''Istihqaq'', and the English ] is identified with the Islamic ''lafif''." John Makdisi speculated that English legal institutions such as "the ], the ] to ]", the "]s known as ] in England and '']'' in Islam" and the "European ]" (Islamic '']'') may have also originated from Islamic law.<ref name=Makdisi/> The methodology of ] and reasoning by ] ('']'') are also similar in both the Islamic and common law systems.<ref name=Gamal>{{cite book |title=Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice |url=https://archive.org/details/islamicfinancela00elga |url-access=limited |first=Mahmoud A. |last=El-Gamal |year=2006 |publisher=] |isbn=0-521-86414-3 |page= }}</ref> These influences have led some scholars to suggest that Islamic law may have laid the foundations for "the common law as an integrated whole".<ref name=Makdisi/> | |||
The extant schools share most of their rulings, but differ on the particular practices which they may accept as authentic and the varying weights they give to ] reason and pure reason. | |||
== See also == | |||
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The ] school was founded by ]. It is followed by Muslims in the ], ], ], ], ], ], Western ], ], ], the ] and by most of ]'s ]. There are movements within this school such as ]s and ]. They are concentrated in ] and in most parts of India. | |||
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* '']'' – a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam written by ] | |||
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The ] school was founded by ]. It is followed by Muslims in ], ], the ], ], in parts of ] and in ]. The ] follows this school as well. In the past, it was also followed in parts of ], particularly ] and the ]. | |||
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The ] school was founded by ]. It is followed by Muslims in ], Eastern ], ], ], ], the ], ], ], ], ], ], and the ]s of ] and ] of India. It is the official school followed by the governments of ] and ]. | |||
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The ] school was founded by ]. It is followed by Muslims in ], most of ] and minority communities in ] and Iraq. The majority of the ]st movement claims to follow this school. | |||
*Doi, Abd ar-Rahman I., and Clarke, Abdassamad (2008). ''Shari'ah: Islamic Law''. Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., {{ISBN|978-1-84200-087-8}} (hardback) | |||
* Cilardo, Agostino, "Fiqh, History of", in ''Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God'' (2 vols.), Edited by C. Fitzpatrick and A. Walker, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2014, Vol I, pp. 201–206. | |||
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*{{cite book |last1=El-Gamal |first1=Mahmoud A. |title=Islamic Finance : Law, Economics, and Practice |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2006 |url=http://iugc.yolasite.com/resources/Reference%20Book%2004%20-%20Islamic%20finance,%20law%20economics%20and%20practice,%20M.%20El%20Gamal.pdf |ref=MAEGIFLEP2006 |access-date=28 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403160351/http://iugc.yolasite.com/resources/Reference%20Book%2004%20-%20Islamic%20finance,%20law%20economics%20and%20practice,%20M.%20El%20Gamal.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2018 |url-status=dead }} | |||
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==== Ẓāhirī ==== | |||
*{{Cite journal |last=Makdisi|first=John A.|title=The Islamic Origins of the Common Law |journal=] |date=June 1999 |volume=77 |issue=5 |pages=1635–1739}} | |||
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* {{cite encyclopedia |first=Irene |last=Schneider |title=Fiqh |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor=Emad El-Din Shahin |year=2014 |doi=10.1093/acref:oiso/9780199739356.001.0001|isbn=9780199739356 }} | |||
The ] school was founded by ]. It is followed by minority communities in ] and ]. In the past, it was also followed by the majority of Muslims in ], ], the ], North Africa and parts of Spain. | |||
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==Further reading== | |||
===Shia jurisprudence=== | |||
*Potz, Richard, , ], Mainz: ], 2011. (Retrieved 28 November 2011.) | |||
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===== Ja'fari jurisprudence ===== | |||
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The Ja'fari school is associated with ]. The time and space bound ] of early jurists are taken more seriously in this school, likely due to the more hierarchical structure of Shia Islam which is ruled by the Shi'ite ]. The Ja'fari school is also more flexible in that every jurist has considerable power to alter a decision according to his reasoning. | |||
The Jafari school uses the ] instead of analogy when establishing Islamic laws, as opposed to common Sunni practice. | |||
Followers of ''the ] ]'' are divided into the following sub-divisions, although these are not considered different sects: | |||
* ] – The Usuli form the overwhelming majority within the Twelver Shia denomination. They follow a ] on the subject of ] and fiqh. They are concentrated in <nowiki>Iran, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iraq, and Lebanon</nowiki>. | |||
* ] – Akhbari, similar to Usulis, however reject ] in favor of hadith. Concentrated in Bahrain. | |||
* ] – Shaykhism is an Islamic religious movement founded by ] in the early 19th century ], Iran, now retaining a minority following in Iran and Iraq. It began from a combination of Sufi and Shia and Akhbari doctrines. In the mid 19th-century many Shaykhis converted to the ] and ] religions, which regard Shaykh Ahmad highly. | |||
===== Batini jurisprudence ===== | |||
{{main|Batiniyyah}} | |||
On the other hand, the followers of ''the ] ]'' consist of ] and ], who developed their own fiqh system and do not pursue the ]. | |||
* Anatolian Qizilbashism and Alevism | |||
{{main|Safaviyya|Shaykh Haydar|Qizilbash|Imadaddin Nasimi|Hurufism|Bektashism and folk religion}} | |||
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In Turkey, ] people belong to the ] ], which tracks back to the sixth ] ] ''(also known as Imam Jafar-i Sadiq),'' are called as the Ja'faris, who belong to ] ]. Although the Alevi ] are considered a part of ] ] ], their belief is different from the ] in conviction. | |||
* Alawi | |||
{{main|Al-Khaṣībī|Ibn Nusayr|Alawism}} | |||
] – ] are also called Nusayris, Nusairis, Namiriya or Ansariyya. Their ] is established by ], and their ] is developed by ]. They follow ''Cillī'' ] of ''"Maymūn ibn ] fiqh"'' of the ]s.<ref name="Meymûn">"Muhammad ibn Āliyy’ūl Cillī ]" of "Maymūn ibn ] fiqh" (Sūlaiman Affandy, ''Al-Bākūrat’ūs Sūlaiman’īyyah - ] of the ] ],'' pp. 14-15, ], 1873.)</ref><ref>Both ''Muhammad ibn Āliyy’ūl Cillī'' and ''Maymūn ibn ]'' were the ]s of ''"]"'', the founder of the ] ].</ref> Slightly over one million of them live in Syria and Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-alawi.htm|title=Alawi Islam|author=John Pike|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* Alevi | |||
{{main|Kızılbaş|Alevism}} | |||
] – ] are sometimes categorized as part of Twelver Shia Islam, and sometimes as its own religious tradition, as it has markedly different philosophy, customs, and rituals. They have many '']ī'' characteristics and express belief in the ] and ], but reject ] and accept religious traditions predating Islam, like Turkish ]. They are significant in East-Central Turkey. They are sometimes considered a Sufi sect, and have an untraditional form of religious leadership that is not scholarship oriented like other Sunni and Shia groups. They number around 24 million worldwide, of which 17 million are in ], with the rest in the ], ], ], ] and ]. | |||
==== Ismaili jurisprudence ==== | |||
{{Ismailis|collapsed=1}} | |||
] is a book on the rulings of Islam followed by Ismaili Muslims who adhere to the ] ] ] fiqh. It describes manners and etiquette, including ] in the light of guidance provided by the Ismaili Imams. The book emphasizes what importance Islam has given to manners and etiquette along with the worship of God, citing the traditions of the first four Imams of the Shi'a Ismaili Fatimid school of thought. | |||
===== Tāyyebī Mustā'līyyah ===== | |||
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] – The Mustaali group of Ismaili Muslims differ from the Nizāriyya in that they believe that the successor-Imām to the Fatimid caliph, al-Mustansir, was his younger son al-Mustaʻlī, who was made Caliph by the Fatimad Regent ]. In contrast to the Nizaris, they accept the younger brother al-Mustaʻlī over Nizār as their Imam. The Bohras are an offshoot of the ], which itself was an offshoot of the Mustaali. The Taiyabi, supporting another offshoot of the Mustaali, the ] branch, split with the Mustaali Fatimid, who recognized ] as their last Imam. The split was due to the Taiyabi believing that ] was the next rightful Imam after ]. The ] themselves however considered ] as the next rightful Imam after ]. The Bohras believe that their 21st Imam, Taiyab abi al-Qasim, went into seclusion and established the offices of the ] (الداعي المطلق), Ma'zoon (مأذون) and Mukasir (مكاسر). The Bohras are the only surviving branch of the Mustaali and themselves have split into the ], ], and ]. | |||
===== Nīzār'īyyah ===== | |||
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] – ''The ]'' are the largest branch (95%) of ], they are the only Shia group to have their absolute temporal leader in the rank of Imamate, which is currently invested in ]. Their present living Imam is ] ] who is the 49th Imam. ]s believe that the successor-Imām to the ] caliph ] was his elder son ]. While '']'' belong to the "] jurisprudence" or ], believed by Shias to be founded by Imam ] they adhere to sumpremacy of "]", in the interpretation of scripture, and believe in the temporal relativism of understanding, as opposed to fiqh ''(traditional ]),'' which adheres to an ] approach to ]. | |||
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====Zaidi jurisprudence==== | |||
] jurisprudence follows the teachings of ]. In terms of law, the Zaidi school is quite similar to the Hanafi school from Sunni Islam.<ref name="Sayyid 2005">Article by Sayyid 'Ali ibn 'Ali Al-Zaidi, A short History of the Yemenite Shi‘ites (2005)</ref> This is likely due to the general trend of Sunni resemblance within Zaidi beliefs. After the passing of Muhammad, Imam ], Imam ], Imams ] and Imam ] worked together in ] in Medina along with over 70 other leading jurists and scholars. ] and ] did not themselves write any books. But their views are Hadiths in the books written by Imams ] and Imam ]. Therefore, the ] to this day and originally the ], used the Hanafi jurisprudence, as do most Sunnis.<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ElRUvoVRxYC&pg=PA118&dq=Zaydis+use+hanafi&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OSQiUeC5HrKM0wWjmIBI&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Zaydis%20use%20hanafi&f=false|title=Islamic Finance|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="Arab-Israeli Conflict Page 917">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA917&dq=Zaydis+use+hanafi&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OSQiUeC5HrKM0wWjmIBI&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Zaydis%20use%20hanafi&f=false|title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and ...|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="The Iraq Effect Page 91">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-3LAlfW7DIC&pg=PA91&dq=Zaydis+use+hanafi&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OSQiUeC5HrKM0wWjmIBI&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Zaydis%20use%20hanafi&f=false|title=The Iraq Effect|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
===Ibadi jurisprudence=== | |||
The ] school of Islam is named after ], though he is not necessarily the main figure of the school in the eyes of its adherents. Ibadism is distinct from both Sunni and Shi'ite Islam not only in terms of its jurisprudence, but also its core beliefs. | |||
===Arguments for and against reform=== | |||
Each school reflects a unique '']'' or culture (a cultural practice that was influenced by traditions), that the classical jurists themselves lived in, when rulings were made. Some suggest that the discipline of '']'', which developed to validate ''hadith'' made it relatively easy to record and validate also the rulings of jurists. This, in turn, made them far easier to imitate ('']'') than to challenge in new contexts. The argument is, the schools have been more or less frozen for centuries, and reflect a culture that simply no longer exists. Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions. | |||
Early '']'' had a much more flexible character, and some modern Muslim scholars believe that it should be renewed, and that the classical jurists should lose special status. This would require formulating a new fiqh suitable for the modern world, e.g. as proposed by advocates of the ], which would deal with the modern context. This modernization is opposed by most conservative '']''. Traditional scholars hold that the laws are contextual and consider circumstance such as time, place and culture, the principles they are based upon are universal such as justice, equality and respect. Many Muslim scholars argue that even though technology may have advanced, the fundamentals of human life have not. | |||
== Early history == | |||
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The formative period of Islamic jurisprudence stretches back to the time of the early Muslim communities. In this period, jurists were more concerned with issues of authority and teaching than with theory and methodology.<ref>Weiss (2002), pp.3, 161.</ref> | |||
Progress in theory and methodology happened with the coming of the early Muslim jurist ] (767–820), who codified the basic principles of Islamic jurisprudence in his book ''ar-Risālah''. The book details the four roots of law (], ], '']'', and '']'') while specifying that the primary Islamic texts (the Qur'an and the hadith) be understood according to objective rules of interpretation derived from scientific study of the Arabic language.<ref>Weiss (2002), p.162.</ref> | |||
Secondary sources of law were developed and refined over the subsequent centuries, consisting primarily of juristic preference ('']''), laws of the previous prophets ('']''), continuity ('']''), extended analogy ('']''), blocking the means ('']''), custome '']'' and saying of a companion ('']'').<ref>Nyazee (2000)</ref> | |||
== Diagram of early scholars == | |||
The Quran set the rights, the responsibilities and the rules for people and for societies to adhere to, like not dealing in interest. Muhammad then provided an example, which is recorded in the hadith books, showing people how he practically implemented these rules in a society. After the passing of ], there was a need for jurists, to decide on new legal matters where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the Hadith, example of ] ] regarding a similar case.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMxjJqurmiAC&pg=PA30&dq=development+of+schools+of+thought+hanifa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vvMMUe7WLs62hAevmIBw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=development%20of%20schools%20of%20thought%20hanifa&f=false|title=Islam Vs. West|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=es9Sunv_y2MC&pg=PA20&dq=development+of+schools+of+thought+hanifa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vvMMUe7WLs62hAevmIBw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=development%20of%20schools%20of%20thought%20hanifa&f=false|title=Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
In the years proceeding ], the community in Madina continued to use the same rules. People were familiar with the practice of Muhammad and therefore continued to use the same rules. | |||
The scholars appearing in the diagram below were taught by ], many of whom settled in Madina.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/ulama.html|title=ulama|publisher=}}</ref> ]<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net">{{cite web|url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/muwcont.html|title=Muwatta|publisher=}}</ref> by ] was written as a consensus of the opinion, of these scholars.<ref name="Coulson">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Ks31qHlSYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=coulson+history+islamic+law&source=bl&ots=QVA59sVI8G&sig=stT7OrQHTIkIJ6mgK5-kQzT0gAg&hl=en&ei=durLTOa5KI_QjAe06rnYBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=A History of Islamic Law|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Va6oSxzojzoC&pg=PA207&dq=Muwatta+consensus+of+the+opinions+scholars&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vqQLUaSqMKy20QXX1YHwDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Muwatta%20consensus%20of%20the%20opinions%20scholars&f=false|title=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA264&dq=Muwatta+consensus+of+the+opinions+scholars&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vqQLUaSqMKy20QXX1YHwDA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Muwatta%20consensus%20of%20the%20opinions%20scholars&f=false|title=Studies in Islamic History and Civilization|publisher=}}</ref> The ]<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net"/> by ] quotes 13 hadiths from Imam ].<ref name="Muwatta">''Al-Muwatta'' of Imam Malik Ibn Anas, translated by Aisha Bewley (Book #5, Hadith #5.9.23)(Book #16, Hadith #16.1.1)(Book #17, Hadith #17.24.43)(Book #20, Hadith #20.10.40)(Book #20, Hadith #20.11.44)(Book #20, Hadith #20.32.108)(Book #20, Hadith #20.39.127)(Book #20, Hadith #20.40.132)(Book #20, Hadith #20.49.167) (Book #20, Hadith #20.57.190)(Book #26, Hadith #26.1.2)(Book #29, Hadith #29.5.17)(Book #36, Hadith #36.4.5) </ref> | |||
Much of the knowledge we have about Muhammad is narrated through ] the wife of ], also a renowned scholar of her time. Aisha raised and taught her nephew ] after her brother ] was killed by the Syrians. | |||
]s mother was from Alis family and Qasims daughter ] was married to ] and was the mother of ]. Therefore, ] was the grand son of ] the first caliph and the grand father of ] whose views the twelver Shias follow. The twelver Shia do not accept Abu Bakr as the first caliph but do accept his great grand son ]. | |||
Aishas also taught her nephew ]. He then taught his son ], who was the main teacher of ] whose views many Sunni follow and also taught ]. ], ] and ] taught ], ], ], and ]. | |||
Imam ], Imam ] and ] worked together in ] in Medina. Along with ], ], ] and over 70 other leading jurists and scholars. | |||
] was taught by ]. ] was taught by ]. ] travelled every where collecting hadith and his father ] was a student of ]<ref name="Islam Page 67">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlGgGVCp0UcC&pg=PA67&dq=aisha+and+qasim+ibn+muhammad&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fwQpUfqMBYi80QXqs4GoAw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=aisha%20and%20qasim%20ibn%20muhammad&f=false|title=Understanding Women in Islam|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdjtUTYSL1UC&pg=PA37&dq=aisha+and+qasim+ibn+muhammad&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fwQpUfqMBYi80QXqs4GoAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=aisha%20and%20qasim%20ibn%20muhammad&f=false|title=Classical Islam|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlqeC1ZFAUEC&pg=PT101&dq=aisha+and+qasim&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gwMpUebmBuTC0QXL2ID4CQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA|title=Judaism and Islam in Practice|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/mutmainaa7/people/jafar_al_sadiq.html|title=Jafar Al-Sadiq|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ziaraat.org/jafar.php|title=IMAM JAFAR BIN MUHAMMAD AS-SADIQ (AS)|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
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In the books actually written by these original jurists and scholars, there are very few theological and judicial differences between them. Imam Ahmad rejected the writing down and codifying of the religious rulings he gave. They knew that they might have fallen into error in some of their judgements and stated this clearly. They never introduced their rulings by saying, "Here, this judgement is the judgement of God and His prophet."<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4OKaz5dzdYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Modernist+Islam,+1840-1940:+A+Sourcebook+By+Charles+Kurzman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rYP-UKSOC4m70QXR54HYDA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA|title=Modernist Islam, 1840-1940|publisher=}}</ref> There is also very little text actually written down by ] himself. They all give priority to the Qur'an and the Hadith (the practice of Muhammad). They felt that the Quran and the Hadith, the example of Muhammad provided people with almost everything they needed. "This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion" Quran 5:5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://quran.com/5/3|title=Surat Al-Ma'idah - The Noble Qur'an - القرآن الكريم|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
These scholars did not distinguish between each other. They were not Sunni or Shia. They felt that they were following the religion of Abraham as described in the Quran "Say: Allah speaks the truth; so follow the religion of Abraham, the upright one. And he was not one of the polytheists" (Qur'an 3:95). | |||
Most of the differences are regarding Sharia laws devised through ] where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the Hadiths of ] ] regarding a similar case.<ref name="books.google.co.uk"/> As these jurists went to new areas, they were pragmatic and continued to use the same ruling as was given in that area during pre-Islamic times, if the population felt comfortable with it, it was just and they used ] to deduce that it did not conflict with the Quran or the Hadith. As explained in the ]<ref name="bewley.virtualave.net"/> by ].<ref name="Coulson"/> This made it easier for the different communities to integrate into the Islamic State and assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State. | |||
To reduce the divergence, ] proposed giving priority to the Qur'an and the Hadith (the practice of Muhammad) and only then look at the consensus of the Muslim jurists ('']'') and analogical reasoning ('']'').<ref name="Coulson"/> This then resulted in jurists like ]<ref name="sahih-bukhari.com"></ref> dedicating their lives to the collection of the correct Hadith, in books like ]. Sahih translates as authentic or correct. They also felt that Muhammads judgement was more impartial and better than their own. | |||
These original jurists and scholars also acted as a counterbalance to the rulers. When they saw injustice, all these scholars spoke out against it. As the state expanded out side Madina, the rights of the different communities, as they were constituted in the ] still applied. The Quran also gave additional rights to the citizens of the state and these rights were also applied. Ali, Hassan and ] gave their allegiance to the first three caliphs because they abided by these conditions. Later Ali the fourth caliph wrote in a letter "I did not approach the people to get their oath of allegiance but they came to me with their desire to make me their Amir (ruler). I did not extend my hands towards them so that they might swear the oath of allegiance to me but they themselves extended their hands towards me".<ref>Nahj ul Balagha Letter 54</ref> But later as fate would have it (]) when ], an oppressive ruler took power, ] the grand son of ] felt that it was a test from God for him and his duty to confront him. Then ], ]s cousin confronted the ] rulers after ] was betrayed by the people of Kufa and killed by Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the ] the Umayyad ruler.<ref>Najeebabadi, Akbar Shah (2001). The History of Islam V.2. Riyadh: Darussalam. pp. 110. ISBN 9960-892-88-3.</ref> ] then took on the Umayyad's and expelled their forces from Hijaz and Iraq. But then his forces were depleted in Iraq, trying to stop the Khawarij. The Ummayad's then moved in. After a lengthy campaign, on his last hour ] asked his mother ] the daughter of ] the first caliph for advice. ] replied to her son, she said:<ref name="ummah.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?347728-The-Advice-of-Asmaa-bint-Abu-Bakr-(ra)-to-her-son-Abdullah-Ibn-Zubair-(ra)|title=The Advice of Asmaa bint Abu Bakr (ra) to her son Abdullah Ibn Zubair (ra)|publisher=}}</ref> "You know better in your own self, that if you are upon the truth and you are calling towards the truth go forth, for people more honourable than you have been killed and if you are not upon the truth, then what an evil son you are and you have destroyed yourself and those who are with you. If you say, that if you are upon the truth and you will be killed at the hands of others, then you will not truly be free". ] left and was later also killed and crucified by the Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the Umayyads and led by Hajjaj. ] the son of ] the first caliph and raised by ] the fourth caliph was also killed by the ].<ref>Nahj al-Balagha Sermon 71, Letter 27, Letter 34, Letter 35</ref> ] then raised and taught his son ] who later taught his grandson ]. | |||
During the early Ummayad period, there was more community involvement. The Quran and Muhammad's example was the main source of law after which the community decided. If it worked for the community, was just and did not conflict with the Quran and the example of Muhammad, it was accepted. This made it easier for the different communities, with Roman, Persian, Central Asia and North African backgrounds to integrate into the Islamic State and that assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State. The scholars in Madina were consulted on the more complex judicial issues. The Sharia and the official more centralized schools of fiqh developed later, during the time of the Abbasids.<ref name="ReferenceB">Muawiya Restorer of the Muslim Faith By Aisha Bewley Page 68</ref> | |||
== Reforming Umayyad rule from the inside == | |||
One of Muawiyah's most controversial and enduring legacies was his decision to designate his son Yazid as his successor. Yazid was experienced militarily, after taking part in various expeditions and the siege of Constantinople but politically inexperienced. Marwan also wanted Yazid to be the Caliph so that he could run things behind the scenes, as he would become the senior member of the Umayyad clan after Muawiyah's death. Mohammad, Abu Bakr and Umar also mistrusted Marwan and he had lived in Taif during their rule, where he made friends with Hajjaj. | |||
Tom Holland writes "Tempers in Medina were not helped by the fact that the governor in the oasis was none other than the fabulously venal and slippery Marwan. Rumours abounded that it was he, back in the last calamitous days of Uthman's rule who had double crossed the war band that had come to Uthman. The locals mistrust of their governor ran particularly deep. Nothing he had done had helped to improve his reputation for double dealing.<ref>The shadow of the sword, The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World By Tom Holland, ISBN 978-0-349-12235-9 Abacus Page 409</ref> | |||
The appointment of Yazid was unpopular in Madina.<ref>'']'' Volume 6, Book 60, Number 352 (narrated by Yusuf bin Mahak).</ref> | |||
Marwan had been appointed as the governor of Hijaz by Muawiya. He delivered a sermon and mentioned Yazid bin Muawiya so that the people might take the oath of allegiance to him as the successor of his father (Muawiya). Then 'Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr told him something whereupon Marwan ordered that he be arrested. But 'Abdur-Rahman entered 'Aisha's house and they could not arrest him. Marwan said, "It is he ('AbdurRahman) about whom Allah revealed this Verse: 'And the one who says to his parents: 'Fie on you! Do you hold out the promise to me..?'" On that, 'Aisha said from behind a screen, "Allah did not reveal anything from the Qur'an about us except what was connected with the declaration of my innocence (of the slander)."{{Primary source inline|date=July 2013}}{{third-party-inline|date=July 2013}} | |||
Ibn Katheer wrote in his book the Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah <ref name="ReferenceC">"The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah: the first phase", taken from '']'' by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 (translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad), page 82.</ref> that "in the year 56 AH Muawiyah called on the people including those within the outlying territories to pledge allegiance to his son, Yazeed, to be his heir to the Caliphate after him. Almost all the subjects offered their allegiance, with the exception of Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr (the son of Abu Bakr), ] (the son of Umar), al-Husain bin Ali (the son of Ali), Abdullah bin Az-Zubair (The grandson of Abu Bakr) and Abdullah ibn Abbas (Ali's cousin). Because of this Muawiyah passed through al-Madinah on his way back from Makkah upon completion of his Umrah Pilgrimage where he summoned each one of the five aforementioned individuals and threatened them. The speaker who addressed Muawiyah sharply with the greatest firmness amongst them was Abdurrahman bin Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq, while Abdullah bin Umar bin al-Khattab was the most soft spoken amongst them. | |||
Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr and ] were mid level Muslim commanders at the ] that took Syria. Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr sister ] also fought in the ] and was opposed to Yazid.<ref name="kalamullah.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.kalamullah.com/conquest-of-syria.html|title=Kalamullah.Com - The Islamic Conquest of Syria (Futuhusham) - al-Imam al-Waqidi|publisher=}}</ref> Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr had been one of the first to dual in that battle, after taking a sword to hand over to a Qays bin Hubayrah who had lost his sword, while in a dual with the Roman Army's best horseman. Two more Roman horsemen then came forward saying "We see no justice when two of you come against one of us." Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr replied "I only came to give my companion a sword and then return. Were 100 of you to come out against one of us we would not be worried. You are now three men. I am enough to take on all three of you". After which he took down the Roman horsemen on his own.<ref name="kalamullah.com"/> After seeing this, Bannes the Roman general said "Caesar really knew these people best. I now know that a difficult situation is to come on you. If you do not attack them with great numbers, you will have no chance". ] had also been a mid level commander in the ]. Some Roman soldiers went to the house of Abu al-Jaid a local Christian in az-Zura ah and after eating all the food, raped his wife and killed his son.<ref name="kalamullah.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.kalamullah.com/conquest-of-syria.html|title=Kalamullah.Com - The Islamic Conquest of Syria (Futuhusham) - al-Imam al-Waqidi|publisher=}}</ref> His wife complained to the Roman general and he ignored her. Abu al-Jaid then went to the Muslims and told them that he knows the local area and if the Muslims exempt him and his descendents from taxes for ever he will help them defeat the Roman army.<ref name="kalamullah.com"/> He then took horse men led by ] to the Roman camp at night and attacked them and then ran away. The Romans chased them and in the dark tens of thousands of them fell down a cliff at the an-Naqusah Creek into a river.<ref name="kalamullah.com"/> Abdullah bin Az-Zubair had also been a commander in various battles including in North Africa and was also involved in the ]. | |||
Muawiyah then delivered a sermon, having stood these five men below the pulpit in full view of the people after which the people pledged allegiance to Yazeed as they stood in silence without displaying their disagreement or opposition for fear of being humiliated. Saeed bin Uthman bin Affan, the son of Uthman also criticized Muawiyah for putting forward Yazeed.".<ref name="ReferenceC"/> They tolerated Muawiyah but did not like Yazeed. | |||
The following year Muawiyah removed Marwan bin al Hakam from the position of Governor in Madina and appointed al-Waleed bin Utbah bin Abi Sufyan.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 83</ref> | |||
According to some sources Muawiyah warned his son Yazid against mistreating Hussein. His final warning to Yazid was: | |||
"As for Husayn what can I tell you concerning him? Be careful not to confront him except in a good way. Extend to him a free hand (literally, a long rope) and let him roam the earth as he pleases. Do not harm him, can show verbal anger but never confront him with the weapons of war but rather bestow on him generous gifts. Give him a place of honor near you and treat him with due reverence. Be careful O my son, that you do not meet God with his blood, lest you be amongst those that will perish"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnfrQCbGSMAC&pg=PA24&dq=Muawiyah&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Mie6UcikMMqH0AX0y4GIBw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Muawiyah&f=false|title=Hosay Trinidad|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rpaPWv5Iyd8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=%22be+careful+o+my+son,+that+you+do+not+meet+god+with+his+blood%22&source=bl&ots=lA6e4tk-zN&sig=Ds_ttrvdU_rXfEh4xqWXJyT9y8E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3Su6UfjoKYWe0QXtwYHYAQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22be%20careful%20o%20my%20son%2C%20that%20you%20do%20not%20meet%20god%20with%20his%20blood%22&f=false|title=Redemptive Suffering in Islam|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
Yazeed and Hussein knew each other well and had both been involved in the Siege of Constantinople.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 135</ref> Many years later, after the events in Karbala when the governor of Kufa, Ibn Ziyad sent the head of Hussein to Yazeed. The Servant of Muawiya bin Abu Sufyan is reported to have said: "When Yazeed came with al-Husain's head and placed it in his hands, I saw Yazeed crying and he said: 'If there had been any relationship between Ibn Ziyad and al-Husain then he would not have done this (referring to Ibn Ziyad).'"<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 152</ref> | |||
After Hussein was killed Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubair expelled Yazids forces from Hijaz and the Kharijites got stronger in Iraq. Yazid died a few months later in young age and his son did not want to take part in a civil war against Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubair and abdicated and later died. | |||
After years of planning and scheming and making every one else fight, Marwan came to power in Syria and the Qurra (the Kharijites) established a state in Southern Iraq. The very thing Hassan signed a treaty with Muawiyah to avoid. | |||
Now there were three camps, the Scholars in Madina, the Kharijites in Iraq and Umayyads in Syria. | |||
In ''Sahih Al Bukhari'', the people still referred to the Kharijites by their old name Qurra and most Muslims resented these civil wars and felt that the Arabs had left the teachings of Muhammad and gone back to their old ways of fighting over wealth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_9_88.php|title=Sahih Bukhari : Book of "End of the World"|author=Sahih Bukhari|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
When Ibn Ziyad and Marwan were in Sham and Ibn Az-zubair took over the authority in Mecca and Qurra' (the Kharijites) revolted in Basra, I went out with my father to Abu Barza Al-Aslami till we entered upon him in his house while he was sitting in the shade of a room built of cane. So we sat with him and my father started talking to him saying, "O Abu Barza! Don't you see in what dilemma the people has fallen?" The first thing heard him saying "I seek reward from Allah for myself because of being angry and scornful at the Quraish tribe. O you Arabs! You know very well that you were in misery and were few in number and misguided, and that Allah has brought you out of all that with Islam and with Muhammad till He brought you to this state (of prosperity and happiness) which you see now; and it is this worldly wealth and pleasures which has caused mischief to appear among you. The one who is in Sham (i.e., Marwan), by Allah, is not fighting except for the sake of worldly gain: and those who are among you, by Allah, are not fighting except for the sake of worldly gain; and that one who is in Mecca (i.e., Ibn Az-zubair) by Allah, is not fighting except for the sake of worldly gain." | |||
Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubair then sent his brother to Iraq to take on the Kharijites who were by then getting stronger. This depleted Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubair forces and he was later defeated by the Syrians. | |||
Ibn Zubayr was finally defeated by ], who sent ]. Hajjaj defeated and killed Ibn Zubayr on the battlefield in 692. | |||
On his last hour he asked his mother ] what he should do. ] replied to her son, she said:<ref name="ummah.com"/> ''"You know better in your own self that if you are upon the truth and you are calling towards the truth go forth for people more honourable than you were killed and have been killed and if you are not upon the truth, then what an evil son you are, you have destroyed yourself and those who are with you. If you say what you say, that if you are upon the truth and you will be killed at the hands of others then you will not truly be free, for this is not the statement of someone who is free"''. | |||
Then ] said to her son, this is the statement of the mother to her son, ''"how long will you live in this world, death is more beloved to me than this state you are on/ this state of weakness"''. | |||
Then this conversation between Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and his mother continued. | |||
Then Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr said to his mother after she had told him to go forth and fight. | |||
He said, ''"I am afraid I will be mutilated by the people of Sham, I am afraid that they will cut up my body after they have killed me"''. | |||
So she said to her son, ''"after someone has died it won't make any difference what they do to you if you have been killed"''. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr then said to his mother, ''"I did not come to you except to increase myself in knowledge"''. | |||
He said to her, ''"I did not come to you except to increase me in knowledge, look and pay attention to this day for verily I am a dead man, your son never drank wine, nor was he fornicator, nor did he wrong any Muslim or Non Muslim, nor was he unjust, I am not saying this to you to show off or show how pure I am but rather as an honour to you"''. | |||
So then Abdullah Ibn Zubair left by himself on his horse and he was killed by the Army of Hajjaj and when he was killed by the Army of Hajjaj all the Army said “Allah hu Akhbar” and Abdullah Ibn Omer heard this and he said,” how strange is it that this man when he was born all of the Muslims said “Allah hu Akhbar” and now that he is killed everyone is also saying “Allah hu Akhbar”. | |||
Asma refused to go and ask permission to put down her sons body and it was said to her, ''"if you don't go his body will remain like that. So she said let it be then"''. | |||
Until eventually, Hajjaj came to her and said, ''"what do you say about this matter"'' and Asma was in her old age and blind by then. Asma said, ''"Verily you have destroyed him you have ruined his life and with that you have ruined your hereafter"''. Asma died a few days later. | |||
Ibn Katheer says that Abdullah Ibn Umar resented the conduct of some of the Ummayad rulers and governors like Hajjaj. Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam who lived near that time, said in his book the first biography on Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz that Abdullah Ibn Omar's niece was married to one of Marwans son called Abdul Aziz who lived in Madina.<ref name="autogenerated1">Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi</ref> Abdul Aziz lived in Madina and had not become an Umayyad ruler, but he had a young son called Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz. Abdullah ibn Umar kept Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz with him for his education when Abdul Aziz and his wife moved to Egypt. Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz was educated in Madina. The scholars in Madina including Abdullah Ibn Umar and ] who was jafar Sadiqs grandfather and Abu Bakr's grandson felt that they could use Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz to peacefully reform the Umayyad rule. | |||
Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam (died 214 AH) wrote that many years earlier: "During the time of Umar Ibn al Khattab the (second Caliph) he prohibit the sale of milk mixed with water. One night, he came out for some need at the outskirts of Madinah. Suddenly, he heard the voice of a woman. She was telling her daughter, "Daughter, you have not yet mixed water in the milk. It is nearly dawn. " The daughter said, "How can I mix water in the milk? Amir ul Muminin has prohibited it". The mother said, "Other people also mix it. You also mix it. How does Amir ul Muminin know?" The daughter replied. "If Umar does not know, then the creator of Umar knows. Once he has prohibited it, then I cannot do it." | |||
Umar was greatly pleased with this conversation. When morning came, he called his son Asim and narrated the incident that took place at night. He then said, "Go and find out who that girl is". Asim went. He made enquiries and found out that the girl was from the tribe of Banu Hilal. He returned and informed Umar. He said to Asim "Son, go and get married to her. Definitely, she is worthy of bearing a horseman who will lead the entire Arabia." | |||
Consequently, Asim married her and a daughter Umm e Asim bint Asim Ibn Umar Ibn al Khattab was born from her. Umm e Asim got married to Adbul Aziz bint Marwan bin al Hakam. Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz was born from her.<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 35-36</ref> | |||
After his education, Raja bin Haiwah who was also a scholar and an advisor to some of the Umayyad rulers took Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz to Syria. Raja bin Haiwah also worked closely with the scholars in Madina. Ibn Katheer wrote in his book the Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah that during the time of Abdul Malik, Raja bin Haiwah also managed the finances for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, that stands to this day.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 265</ref> | |||
Ibn Katheer wrote that even the Umayyad ruler Al-Waleed bin Abdul Malik would write to Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz in Madina for advice on legal matter. Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz would then convene a meeting with the jurists in Madina and they would all decide on the reply.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 414</ref> | |||
Later the future Ummayad ruler Sulaiman would also consult Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz. Hajjaj opposed Sulaiman from becoming Caliph, even though his father had written in his will that after his brother Al-Waleed bin Abdul Malik, Sulaiman would be Caliph. So Sulaiman became even closer to Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz who also opposed Hajjaj.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> | |||
When Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz was made the governor of Madina, he asked the Khalifah that he wished to be excused from Hajjaj coming to Madinah. After which, Hajjaj was prevented from going to Madina.<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 46</ref> | |||
According to Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam from Madina (died 214 AH 829 C.E) Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz then said to the ruler Walid Ibn Abdul Malik "After ascribing partners to Allah, there is no greater sin than spilling blood. Your governors are unjustifiably killing people and they only write the crime of the killed person (murder) to inform you. You will be answerable for this and you will be held accountable (by God). Therefore, write to your governors telling them that no one should be punished by death, but they should write of the crime to you. There should be witnesses to it, then you should decide on that punishment to be meted out after great thought and deliberation" Walid said "O Abu Hafs (He called Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz, Abu Hafs), May Allah grant you blessings in your life and delay your demise. Bring the pen and paper." Walid then wrote this command to all the governors. Besides Hajjaj, no one found it difficult. It weighed heavily on him and he became very agitated. He thought that no one else besides him got this command. He investigated and found that he was wrong. He said "Where did this calamity come from? Who told this to Walid?" he was told that 'Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz was responsible for this. When he heard this he said, "Oh, if the one who gave this consultation is Umar, then it is not permissible to reject it".<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 203-204</ref> | |||
The ruler Sulayman Ibn Abdul Malik said to Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz "Look how many people gather during the Hajj season." He replied "Amir ul Mu minin, all of them are your plaintiffs" (They will complain about you in the court of Allah on the Day of judgment)<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 225</ref> | |||
According to Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam who lived near that time and later Ibn Katheer said that Ibn Jareer said that, Raja bin Haiwah (who was also a scholar) the minister of marriage, for the Ummayad ruler Sulaiman said that when Sulaiman was on his death bed, I told him "Indeed amongst the things that preserves the caliph in his grave is his appointment of a righteous man over the muslims." So he wrote a letter appointing the scholar from Madina, Umar bin Abdul Azeez. To allow the Ummayads to accept this, Raja then advised him to make his brother Yazeed bin Adbul Malik the successor after Umar bin Abdul Azeez.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 505</ref><ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 54-59</ref> Umar bin Abdul Azeez was a grand son of Omar, the second Caliph from his mothers side. After his appointment he set up a committee of the jurist in Madina headed by ] and it included ], Ubaidullah bin Abdullah bin Utbah, Abu Bakr bin Abdur-Rahman bin al-Harith bin Hisham, Abu Bakr bin Sulaiman bin Abu Hathmah, Sulaiman bin Yasar, Salim bin Abdullah, Abdullah bin Amir bin Rabee'ah and Kharijah bin Zaid bin Thabit, in Madina to advise on legal matters.<ref>The Caliphate of Banu Umayyah the first Phase, Ibn Katheer, Taken from Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Katheer, Ismail Ibn Omar 775 ISBN 978-603-500-080-2 Translated by Yoosuf Al-Hajj Ahmad Page 522</ref> The work of ] and successive jurists is also based on the work of this early committee in Madina. ] also refers to these Fuqaha' of Madina.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/ulama.html|title=ulama|publisher=}}</ref> Madina at the time had the largest number of Muhammad's companions therefore no one could lie about what Muhammad had said, while in Madina during that period. After becoming the Khalif, Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz worked very closely with the scholars in Madina to make the laws in line with the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad's. He also reduced the allowances of the Umayyad family members. Which they deeply resented. | |||
When Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz reduced the allowances of the Umayyad family members. They sent some one to him to ask for more. When Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz refused, the man said to them "O Banu Umayyah, you should rebuke yourself. You got up and married a person of your family to the grand daughter of Umar. He wrapped Umar in a cloth and presented him to you. You should therefore rebuke yourself".<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 84-85</ref> | |||
Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz also started peace talks with the Kharijites. He then reduced the taxes for the Muslims. He sacked oppressive governors and replaced them.<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 220-221</ref> His policies made him very popular with the population but not so popular with the Umayyads. The reduction in the taxes also reduced further expeditions and the expansion of the state. But lower taxes and better justice allowed the economy to expand. The tax collector Yahya Ibn Sa'id complained that after collecting the taxes, he could not find people willing to take the charity from the welfare state<ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 171</ref> | |||
Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam (died 214 AH) writes that Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz then stopped the allowance of the Banu Umayyah, stopped giving them land and made them the same as every one else. And they complained bitterly. So Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz said to them "By Allah, I want that no impermissible decision should remain on the earth that I will not finish off." <ref>Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz By Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi Page 221</ref> | |||
According to Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam who lived near that time and later Ibn Katheer, Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz was soon killed, but when the future rulers tried to reverse his policies, the population started to rebel. | |||
With the death of Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz the scholars in Madina got very upset. But in the short time Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz was in power the changes he made, had a long-lasting effect in the minds of the people. An associate of Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz, ] the grandson of Husayns was also very upset. ] then started receiving letters from Kufa asking him to come to Kufa. In 740, ] supported his friend ] against an Umayyad ruler but asked his friend not to go to Kufa. ], ] and ]'s family advised ] not to go to Kufa feared that Zayd ibn Ali would get betrayed in ].<ref name=Najeebabadi>{{Harvtxt|Najeebabadi|2001|loc=Vol 2|p=229}}</ref><ref name="The History of Islam">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=duAhUE684bwC&pg=PA229&dq=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ahgEUdq8KefG0QW0uYF4&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=zayd%20ibn%20ali%20betrayed&f=false|title=The History of Islam|publisher=}}</ref><ref name=IslamReDefined>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HpIAAAAMAAJ&q=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&dq=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CRsEUZrEIvOM0wXfrICQBw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwATgK|title=Islam re-defined|publisher=}}</ref><ref name=ElFadl72>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhvPnC5NnzMC&pg=PA72&dq=abu+hanifa+Zayd+ibn+Ali++prison&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Or79ULqxGYTG0QXEvoHgDA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=abu%20hanifa%20Zayd%20ibn%20Ali%20%20prison&f=false|title=Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="Tārikh al-madhāhib al-fiqhīyah">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rI4VAQAAIAAJ&q=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&dq=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ahgEUdq8KefG0QW0uYF4&sqi=2&ved=0CGIQ6AEwCQ|title=Tārikh al-madhāhib al-fiqhīyah|publisher=}}</ref> But ] felt that he needed to oppose the Umayyads by force. ] believe that on his arrival in Kufa, on the last hour of ], the people in Kufa asked him: "May God have mercy on you! What do you have to say on the matter of ] and ]?" ] said, "I have not heard anyone in my family renouncing them both nor saying anything but good about them...when they were entrusted with government they behaved justly with the people and acted according to the Qur'an and the Sunnah.".<ref name="Tabarī, Carole Hillenbrand 1989, p37">''The waning of the Umayyad caliphate'' by Tabarī, Carole Hillenbrand, 1989, p37, p38</ref><ref name="Religion Vol 1987, p243">''The Encyclopedia of Religion'' Vol.16, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, Macmillan, 1987, p243.</ref> | |||
After which they withdrew their support<ref name=Najeebabadi>{{Harvtxt|Najeebabadi|2001|loc=Vol 2|p=229}}</ref><ref name=Najeebabadi/><ref name="The History of Islam"/><ref name=IslamReDefined>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HpIAAAAMAAJ&q=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&dq=zayd+ibn+ali+betrayed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CRsEUZrEIvOM0wXfrICQBw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwATgK|title=Islam re-defined|publisher=}}</ref><ref name=ElFadl72>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhvPnC5NnzMC&pg=PA72&dq=abu+hanifa+Zayd+ibn+Ali++prison&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Or79ULqxGYTG0QXEvoHgDA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=abu%20hanifa%20Zayd%20ibn%20Ali%20%20prison&f=false|title=Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="Tārikh al-madhāhib al-fiqhīyah"/> and ] fought bravely against the Umayyad army but was killed. The Scholars kept up the pressure on the Umayyads and as the Umayyads tried to re-impose the taxes abolished by Umar Ibn Adbul Aziz, the population also got more rebellious. | |||
Later the Abbasids came to power and they tried to change the laws so that they could be above the law, in 767 ] died in prison when he refused to support the Abbasid ruler ] and ] was flogged.<ref name="sunnahonline1"> {{wayback|url=http://sunnahonline.com/library/biographies/309-malik |date=20130508143521 |df=y }}</ref><ref name="BVpaCu7XA8C page 221">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBVpaCu7XA8C&pg=PA221&dq=imam+malik+flogged&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RYz-UMrVBMec0AXqlIDYDA&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=imam%20malik%20flogged&f=false|title=Decline of Muslim States and Societies|publisher=}}</ref> But then the Abbasids backed off and allowed the laws of Madina to be implemented again and the book ] of ] based on the laws based on the Quran and the example of Muhammad and based on the work of the committee of the main jurist in Madina headed by ], who was jafar Sadiq's grandfather and Abu Bakr's grandson were again implemented. | |||
Later the Abbasids tried to impose the mutazilite philosophy so that they could change the laws, so that they could present themselves as being above the law. Imam Ahmed Hanbal confronted a ruler and was tortured and sent to an unlit ] prison cell for nearly thirty months.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIgVAQAAIAAJ&q=Shariah:+The+Islamic+Law+By+Abdur+Rahman&dq=Shariah:+The+Islamic+Law+By+Abdur+Rahman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8x_xUqPzGM7lygH8yYDIDA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA |title=Shariah: The Islamic Law |author=Abdur Rahman |page=110 |year=1984 |publisher=Ta-Ha |location=London |isbn=0-907461-38-7 |deadurl=no |accessdate=4 February 2014}}</ref> | |||
In 767, ] had died in prison when he refused to support the Abbasid ruler ]<ref name="sunnahonline1"/><ref name="BVpaCu7XA8C page 221"/> but later the mutazilite philosophy failed and the Hanifi jurisprudence was implemented. Since Imam ] and Imam ] worked with Imam ] and Imam ] wrote books at that time, the Zaidi's and originally the Fatimid's used the Hanifi jurisprudence. In terms of law, the modern Zaidi school is quite similar to the Hanafi school.<ref name="Sayyid 2005"/> | |||
These scholars also laid the foundations of ] and some scientists and Mathematicians on the ] were taught by these scholars, they then taught other scholars. Islam discourages the belief in superstition. Hence these scholars felt that humans could truly appreciate God magnificence, by studying Gods creation. | |||
Quran 45:3<ref>{{cite web|url=http://quran.com/45|title=Surat Al-Jathiyah - The Noble Qur'an - القرآن الكريم|publisher=}}</ref> "Indeed, within the heavens and earth are signs for the believers." | |||
For them ] were linked<ref> {{wayback|url=http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-06/st_islamtech |date=20131104014933 }}</ref><ref> {{wayback|url=http://www.quranandscience.com/early-muslim-scientists.html |date=20130927032639 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islamicity.com/Science/scientists/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1|title=IslamiCity.com - A Sine On the Road to Makkah|publisher=}}</ref> The students of these scholars also preserved and translated the Greek and Latin manuscripts during the ] in Europe. They were also instrumental in the making of the European Renaissance.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Boc0JjGRPF0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=islam+and+science&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MdkgUc_wIcndswa-8ICYAQ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=islam%20and%20science&f=false|title=Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USkI6FvYlyYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=islam+and+science&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MdkgUc_wIcndswa-8ICYAQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw|title=Islam and Science, Medicine, and Technology|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KVAmUrZ_bcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=islam+and+science&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MdkgUc_wIcndswa-8ICYAQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=islam%20and%20science&f=false|title=Science and Islam|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA3fkX5wQMUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=islam+and+science&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RtogUf6OH8vGtAbk1oCwCQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBDgK|title=The Rise of Early Modern Science|publisher=}}</ref> Many of the early advances in astronomy were made because the Muslims relied on the Sun, the Moon and the stars for the times to pray, and the time of Ramadan and the direction to the Mecca, for the direction to pray and for navigation in the desert and the sea. | |||
All the Muslims follow the Quran and the example of Muhammad. The differences between the denominations in Islam are primarily political. The Sunnis give more importance to the Quran and the books containing the hadith, examples of Muhammad, but since all the early scholars and all the four caliphs worked together, the Sunnis accept all the first four caliphs, as they were elected by the community. They also accept all the early imams (scholars) for their knowledge. While the Shias who constitute around 10-20% of the Muslims are more hereditary and only accept Ali the fourth caliph, accept Hassan and only accept certain male descendent of Ali through his son Hussein as imams. But different branches of Shia accept different brothers. | |||
Some of the elite in the old empires of the Middle East felt discontented with the passage of their empires and did not like the Arab Caliphs, their ideas eventually found their way into the religious differences. During the Abbasid period, many history books were also written as a reference for future generations, recording everything people were saying about the early history of Islam. They were not subject to the same level of authenticity checks. In many cases the preislamic customs of the populations that converted to Islam were also absorbed into their rituals.<ref>A Brief History of Saudi Arabia By James Wynbrandt page 64</ref> This also amplified the differences. During the ] the Byzantines benefited when there were political disagreements between the Muslims and used the time to establishment of the ].<ref>{{Harvtxt|Rahman|1999|p=58}}</ref> Some of the ideas of the ] who were initially very extreme in their support of Ali's caliphate, but later killed Ali when he made peace with ] also lived on. | |||
Ali according to both the Sunni and the Shia books was against sectarianism. The following sermon of Ali exists in both the Sunni and the Shia books. | |||
"Ali says: With regard to me, two categories of people will be ruined, namely he who loves me too much and the love takes him away from rightfulness, and he who hates me too much and the hatred takes him away from rightfulness. The best man with regard to me is he who is on the middle course. So be with him and be with the great majority of Muslims because Allah’s hand of protection is on keeping unity. You should beware of division because the one isolated from the group is a prey to Satan just as the one isolated from the flock of sheep is a prey to the wolf. Beware! Whoever calls to this course of sectarianism, even though he may be under this headband of mine."<ref>Nahjul Balagha, Sermon 126</ref> | |||
After the Mongolian invasion and the subsequent reduction in the literacy rates, people began to label themselves as belonging to denominations rather than actually reading the books of these scholars. | |||
The differences amplified after the Safavid invasion of Persia and the subsequent ] due to the politics between the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExbdVf5fFmUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sunni+shia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ap35UMrvOo7s0gW52oH4DA&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg|title=The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad|publisher=}}</ref> To consolidate their position, the Safavid's also exploited the deep rooted differences between areas formally under the Persian ] and areas formally under the ] Roman Empire. Differences that existing from the ] and the ]. Under the oppressive rule of ], some Muslims began to think that if ] the descendent of Muhammad was their ruler, he would have been more just. However, later a minority, took this concept one step further and also started thinking, what if history took a different course and these ideas were later odopted by some Shia and institutionalised by the ]. For the first time in the history of Islam, the ] also established a hierarchical organization of the Shiite clergy and funded this hierarchy through the collection of ] and ].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmVUg_qHr2AC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=safavids+hierarchical+organization+of+the+Shiite+clergy&source=bl&ots=yQYqqIu6UF&sig=JiYPWQTP1k2219extxIdBSdlOsY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7zMWUfGNCMrU0QW3-ICQBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=safavids%20hierarchical%20organization%20of%20the%20Shiite%20clergy&f=false|title=The History of Iran|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4Yr4foWFFgC&pg=PA185&dq=vaqf+safavids&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SDkWUfiaD4TK0AW_14DgCg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=vaqf%20safavids&f=false|title=Iran Under the Safavids|publisher=}}</ref> Before that point ] disapproved of people who said anything bad about his great grand father ] the first caliph. | |||
After witnessing what happens due to the lust for wealth and power, others like ] advocated piety and the condemnation of worldliness which later influenced the development of the Sufis. It was further developed by ]. | |||
== Possible links with Western law == | |||
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A number of important legal ]s were developed by Muslim jurists during the classical period of Islam, known as the ]. One such institution was the '']'', an early ], which is mentioned in texts of Islamic jurisprudence as early as the 8th century. ''Hawala'' itself later influenced the development of the ] in ] and in ] such as the '']'' in ] and the ''avallo'' in ] law.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Islamic Law: Its Relation to Other Legal Systems |first=Gamal Moursi |last=Badr |journal=The American Journal of Comparative Law |volume=26 |issue=2 – Proceedings of an International Conference on Comparative Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 24–25, 1977 |date=Spring 1978 |pages=187–198 |doi=10.2307/839667 |publisher=American Society of Comparative Law |ref=harv |postscript=<!--None--> |jstor=839667}}</ref> The "European ]" (Islamic '']'') used in European civil law may have also originated from Islamic law.<ref name=Makdisi/> | |||
The '']'' in ], which developed during the 7th–9th centuries, bears a notable resemblance to the ] in the English ].<ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988}}</ref> For example, every ''Waqf'' was required to have a ''waqif'' (settlor), ''mutawillis'' (trustee), '']'' (judge) and beneficiaries.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988|pp=1237–40}}</ref> The trust law developed in ] at the time of the ], during the 12th and 13th centuries, was introduced by Crusaders who may have been influenced by the ''Waqf'' institutions they came across in the ].<ref>{{Harvnb|Hudson|2003|p=32}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Gaudiosi|1988|pp=1244–5}}</ref> | |||
The Islamic ''lafif'' was a body of twelve members drawn from the ] and sworn to tell the truth, who were bound to give a unanimous ], about matters "which they had personally seen or heard, binding on the ], to settle the truth concerning facts in a case, between ordinary people, and obtained as of right by the ]." The only characteristic of the English jury which the Islamic ''lafif'' lacked was the "judicial ] directing the jury to be summoned and directing the ] to hear its recognition." According to Professor John Makdisi, "no other institution in any legal institution studied to date shares all of these characteristics with the English jury." It is thus likely that the concept of the ''lafif'' may have been introduced to ] by the ], who ] and the ], and then evolved into the modern English jury.<ref name=Makdisi>{{Harvnb|Makdisi|1999}}</ref> | |||
Several other fundamental ] institutions may have been adapted from similar legal institutions in ] and jurisprudence, and introduced to England by the ] after the ] and the ], and by Crusaders during the ]. In particular, the "royal English ] protected by the action of ] is identified with the Islamic ''Aqd'', the English ] is identified with the Islamic ''Istihqaq'', and the English ] is identified with the Islamic ''lafif''." Other English legal institutions such as "the ], the ] to ]", the "]s known as ] in England and '']'' in Islam" and the "European ]" (Islamic '']'') may have also originated from Islamic law.<ref name=Makdisi/> The methodology of ] and reasoning by ] ('']'') are also similar in both the Islamic and common law systems.<ref name=Gamal>{{cite book |title=Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice |first=Mahmoud A. |last=El-Gamal |year=2006 |publisher=] |isbn=0-521-86414-3 |page=16 |ref=harv |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref> These influences have led some scholars to suggest that Islamic law may have laid the foundations for "the common law as an integrated whole".<ref name=Makdisi/> | |||
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== Notes == | |||
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== References == | |||
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*Doi, Abd ar-Rahman I., and Clarke, Abdassamad (2008). ''Shari'ah: Islamic Law''. Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., ISBN 978-1-84200-087-8 (hardback) | |||
* Cilardo, Agostino, "Fiqh, History of", in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 vols.), Edited by C. Fitzpatrick and A. Walker, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2014, Vol I, pp. 201–206. | |||
*{{Cite journal |ref=harv |journal=] |volume=136 |issue=4 |date=April 1988 |pages=1231–1261 |doi=10.2307/3312162 |author1=Gaudiosi, Monica M |title=The Influence of the Islamic Law of Waqf on the Development of the Trust in England_ The Case of Merton College |publisher=The University of Pennsylvania Law Review |jstor=3312162}} | |||
*{{Cite book |ref=harv |last=Levy |first=Reuben |title=The Social Structure of Islam |location=UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1957 |isbn=978-0-521-09182-4}} | |||
*{{Cite journal |ref=harv |last=Makdisi|first=John A.|title=The Islamic Origins of the Common Law |journal=] |date=June 1999 |volume=77 |issue=5 |pages=1635–1739}} | |||
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*Potz, Richard, , ], Mainz: ], 2011. (Retrieved 28 November 2011.) | |||
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Fiqh (/fiːk/; Arabic: فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is often described as the style of human understanding and practices of the sharia; that is, human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions). Fiqh expands and develops Shariah through interpretation (ijtihad) of the Quran and Sunnah by Islamic jurists (ulama) and is implemented by the rulings (fatwa) of jurists on questions presented to them. Thus, whereas sharia is considered immutable and infallible by Muslims, fiqh is considered fallible and changeable. Fiqh deals with the observance of rituals, morals and social legislation in Islam as well as economic and political system. In the modern era, there are four prominent schools (madh'hab) of fiqh within Sunni practice, plus two (or three) within Shi'a practice. A person trained in fiqh is known as a faqīh (pl.: fuqaha).
Figuratively, fiqh means knowledge about Islamic legal rulings from their sources. Deriving religious rulings from their sources requires the mujtahid (an individual who exercises ijtihad) to have a deep understanding in the different discussions of jurisprudence.
The studies of fiqh, are traditionally divided into Uṣūl al-fiqh (principles of Islamic jurisprudence, lit. the roots of fiqh, alternatively transliterated as Usool al-fiqh), the methods of legal interpretation and analysis; and Furūʿ al-fiqh (lit. the branches of fiqh), the elaboration of rulings on the basis of these principles. Furūʿ al-fiqh is the product of the application of Uṣūl al-fiqh and the total product of human efforts at understanding the divine will. A hukm (pl.: aḥkām) is a particular ruling in a given case.
Etymology
The word fiqh is an Arabic term meaning "deep understanding" or "full comprehension". Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources (which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence. The historian Ibn Khaldun describes fiqh as "knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves connected to obey the law respecting what is required (wajib), sinful (haraam), recommended (mandūb), disapproved (makrūh), or neutral (mubah)". This definition is consistent amongst the jurists.
In Modern Standard Arabic, fiqh has also come to mean Islamic jurisprudence. It is not thus possible to speak of Chief Justice John Roberts as an expert in the common law fiqh of the United States, or of Egyptian legal scholar Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri as an expert in the civil law fiqh of Egypt.
History
Main article: Sharia Further information: History of Islamic economicsAccording to Sunni Islamic history, Sunni law followed a chronological path of:
- Allah → Muhammad → Companions → Followers → Fiqh.
The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and examples of the Prophet passed down as hadith). The first Muslims (the Sahabah or Companions) heard and obeyed, and passed this essence of Islam to succeeding generations (Tabi'un and Tabi' al-Tabi'in or successors/followers and successors of successors), as Muslims and Islam spread from West Arabia to the conquered lands north, east, and west, where it was systematized and elaborated.
The history of Islamic jurisprudence is "customarily divided into eight periods":
- the first period ending with the death of Muhammad in 11 AH.
- second period "characterized by personal interpretations" of the canon by the Sahabah or companions of Muhammad, lasting until 50 AH.
- from 50 AH until the early second century AH there was competition between "a traditionalist approach to jurisprudence" in western Arabia where Islam was revealed and a "rationalist approach in Iraq".
- the "golden age of classical Islamic jurisprudence" from the "early second to the mid-fourth century when the eight "most significant" schools of Sunni and Shi'i jurisprudence emerged."
- from the mid-fourth century to mid-seventh AH Islamic jurisprudence was "limited to elaborations within the main juristic schools".
- the "dark age" of Islamic jurisprudence stretched from the fall of Baghdad in the mid-seventh AH (1258 CE) to 1293 AH/1876 CE.
- In 1293 AH (1876 CE) the Ottomans codified Hanafi jurisprudence in the Majallah el-Ahkam-i-Adliya. Several "juristic revival movements" influenced by "exposure to Western legal and technological progress" followed until the mid-20th century CE. Muhammad Abduh and Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri were products of this era. However, Abduh and El-Sanhuri were modernists. 19th century Ottoman Shariah Code was built on the views of the Hanafi school.
- The most recent era has been that of the "Islamic revival", which has been "predicated on rejection of Western social and legal advances" and the development of specifically Islamic states, social sciences, economics, and finance.
The formative period of Islamic jurisprudence stretches back to the time of the early Muslim communities. During this period, jurists were more concerned with issues of authority and teaching than with theory and methodology.
Progress in theory and methodology happened with the coming of the early Muslim jurist Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767–820), who codified the basic principles of Islamic jurisprudence in his book ar-Risālah. The book details the four roots of law (Qur'an, sunnah, ijma, and qiyas) while specifying that the primary Islamic texts (the Qur'an and the hadith) be understood according to objective rules of interpretation derived from scientific study of the Arabic language.
Secondary sources of law were developed and refined over the subsequent centuries, consisting primarily of juristic preference (istihsan), laws of the previous prophets (shara man qablana), continuity (istishab), extended analogy (maslaha mursala), blocking the means (sadd al-dhari'ah), local customs (urf), and sayings of a companion of the Prophet (qawl al-sahabi).
Diagram of early scholars
The Quran set the rights, responsibilities, and rules for people and societies to adhere to, such as dealing in interest. Muhammad then provided an example, which is recorded in the hadith books, showing people how he practically implemented these rules in a society. After the passing of Muhammad, there was a need for jurists, to decide on new legal matters where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the hadith, example of Muhammad regarding a similar case.
In the years proceeding Muhammad, the community in Madina continued to use the same rules. People were familiar with the practice of Muhammad and therefore continued to use the same rules.
The scholars appearing in the diagram below were taught by Muhammad's companions, many of whom settled in Madina. Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas was written as a consensus of the opinion, of these scholars. Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas quotes 13 hadiths from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. Aisha also taught her nephew Urwah ibn Zubayr. He then taught his son Hisham ibn Urwah, who was the main teacher of Malik ibn Anas whose views many Sunni follow and also taught by Jafar al-Sadiq. Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Hisham ibn Urwah and Muhammad al-Baqir taught Zayd ibn Ali, Jafar al-Sadiq, Abu Hanifa, and Malik ibn Anas.
Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, Imam Abu Hanifa and Malik ibn Anas worked together in Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina. Along with Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Muhammad al-Baqir, Zayd ibn Ali and over 70 other leading jurists and scholars.
Al-Shafi‘i was taught by Malik ibn Anas. Ahmad ibn Hanbal was taught by Al-Shafi‘i. Muhammad al-Bukhari travelled everywhere collecting hadith and his father Ismail ibn Ibrahim was a student of Malik ibn Anas.
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In the books actually written by these original jurists and scholars, there are very few theological and judicial differences between them. Imam Ahmad rejected the writing down and codifying of the religious rulings he gave. They knew that they might have fallen into error in some of their judgements and stated this clearly. They never introduced their rulings by saying, "Here, this judgement is the judgement of God and His prophet." There is also very little text actually written down by Jafar al-Sadiq himself. They all give priority to the Qur'an and the hadith (the practice of Muhammad). They felt that the Quran and the Hadith, the example of Muhammad provided people with almost everything they needed. "This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion" (Qur'an 5:3).
These scholars did not distinguish between each other. They were not Sunni or Shia. They felt that they were following the religion of Abraham as described in the Quran "Say: Allah speaks the truth; so follow the religion of Abraham, the upright one. And he was not one of the polytheists" (Qur'an 3:95).
Most of the differences are regarding Sharia laws devised through Ijtihad where there is no such ruling in the Quran or the hadiths of Islamic prophet Muhammad regarding a similar case. As these jurists went to new areas, they were pragmatic and continued to use the same ruling as was given in that area during pre-Islamic times, if the population felt comfortable with it, it was just and they used Ijtihad to deduce that it did not conflict with the Quran or the Hadith. As explained in the Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas. This made it easier for the different communities to integrate into the Islamic State and assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State.
To reduce the divergence, ash-Shafi'i proposed giving priority to the Qur'an and the Hadith (the practice of Muhammad) and only then look at the consensus of the Muslim jurists (ijma) and analogical reasoning (qiyas). This then resulted in jurists like Muhammad al-Bukhari dedicating their lives to the collection of the correct hadith, in books like Sahih al-Bukhari (Sahih translates as authentic or correct). They also felt that Muhammad's judgement was more impartial and better than their own.
These original jurists and scholars also acted as a counterbalance to the rulers. When they saw injustice, all these scholars spoke out against it. As the state expanded outside Madina, the rights of the different communities, as they were constituted in the Constitution of Medina still applied. The Quran also gave additional rights to the citizens of the state and these rights were also applied. Ali, Hassan and Husayn ibn Ali gave their allegiance to the first three caliphs because they abided by these conditions. Later Ali the fourth caliph wrote in a letter "I did not approach the people to get their oath of allegiance but they came to me with their desire to make me their Amir (ruler). I did not extend my hands towards them so that they might swear the oath of allegiance to me but they themselves extended their hands towards me." But later as fate would have it (Predestination in Islam) when Yazid I, an Umayyad ruler took power, Husayn ibn Ali the grandson of Muhammad felt that it was a test from God for him and his duty to confront him. Then Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr's cousin confronted the Umayyad rulers after Husayn ibn Ali was betrayed by the people of Kufa and killed by Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the Yazid I. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr then took on the Umayyads and expelled their forces from Hijaz and Iraq. But then his forces were depleted in Iraq, trying to stop the Khawarij. The Umayyads then moved in. After a lengthy campaign, in his last hour Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr asked his mother Asma' bint Abu Bakr the daughter of Abu Bakr the first caliph for advice. Asma' bint Abu Bakr replied to her son, she said: "You know better in your own self, that if you are upon the truth and you are calling towards the truth go forth, for people more honourable than you have been killed and if you are not upon the truth, then what an evil son you are and you have destroyed yourself and those who are with you. If you say, that if you are upon the truth and you will be killed at the hands of others, then you will not truly be free." Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr left and was later also killed and crucified by the Syrian Roman Army now under the control of the Umayyads and led by Hajjaj. Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr the son of Abu Bakr the first caliph and raised by Ali the fourth caliph was also killed by the Umayyads. Aisha then raised and taught her son Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr who later taught his grandson Jafar al-Sadiq.
During the early Umayyad period, there was more community involvement. The Quran and Muhammad's example was the main source of law after which the community decided. If it worked for the community, was just and did not conflict with the Quran and the example of Muhammad, it was accepted. This made it easier for the different communities, with Roman, Persian, Central Asia and North African backgrounds to integrate into the Islamic State and that assisted in the quick expansion of the Islamic State. The scholars in Madina were consulted on the more complex judicial issues. The Sharia and the official more centralized schools of fiqh developed later, during the time of the Abbasids.
Components
Further information: Principles of Islamic jurisprudenceThe sources of Sharia in order of importance are
Primary sources
Secondary sources
- 3. Ijma, i.e. collective reasoning and consensus amongst authoritative Muslims of a particular generation, and its interpretation by Islamic scholars.
- 4. Ijtihad, i.e. independent legal reasoning by Islamic jurists.
Majority of Sunni Muslims view Qiyas as a central Pillar of Ijtihad. On the other hand; Zahirites, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Bukhari, early Hanbalites, etc. rejected Qiyas amongst the Sunnis. Similarly, the Shi’a jurists almost unanimously reject both pure reason and analogical reason; viewing both these methods as subjective.
The Qur'an gives clear instructions on many issues, such as how to perform the ritual purification (wudu) before the obligatory daily prayers (salat). On other issues, for example, the Qur'an states one needs to engage in daily prayers (salat) and fast (sawm) during the month of Ramadan but further instructions and details on how to perform these duties can be found in the traditions of Muhammad, so Qur'an and Sunnah are in most cases the basis for (Shariah).
Some topics are without precedent in Islam's early period. In those cases, Muslim jurists (Fuqaha) try to arrive at conclusions by other means. Sunni jurists use historical consensus of the community (Ijma); a majority in the modern era also use analogy (Qiyas) and weigh the harms and benefits of new topics (Istislah), and a plurality utilizes juristic preference (Istihsan). The conclusions arrived at with the aid of these additional tools constitute a wide array of laws, and its application is called fiqh. Thus, in contrast to the sharia, fiqh is not regarded as sacred and the schools of thought have differing views on its details, without viewing other conclusions as sacrilegious. This division of interpretation in more detailed issues has resulted in different schools of thought (madh'hab).
This wider concept of Islamic jurisprudence is the source of a range of laws in different topics that guide Muslims in everyday life.
Component categories
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) covers two main areas:
- Rules in relation to actions, and,
- Rules in relation to circumstances surrounding actions.
These types of rules can also fall into two groups:
- Worship (Ibadaat)
- Dealings and transactions (with people) (Mu`amalaat)
Rules in relation to actions ('amaliyya — عملية) or "decision types" comprise:
- Obligation (fardh)
- Recommendation (mustahabb)
- Permissibility (mubah)
- Disrecommendation (makrooh)
- Prohibition (haraam)
Rules in relation to circumstances (wadia') comprise:
- Condition (shart)
- Cause (sabab)
- Preventor (mani)
- Permit / Enforced (rukhsah, azeemah)
- Valid / Corrupt / Invalid (sahih, fasid, batil)
- In time / Deferred / Repeat (adaa, qadaa, i'ada)
Methodologies of jurisprudence
Main article: Principles of Islamic jurisprudenceThe modus operandi of the Muslim jurist is known as usul al-fiqh ("principles of jurisprudence").
There are different approaches to the methodology used in jurisprudence to derive Islamic rulings from the primary sources of sharia (Islamic law). The main methodologies are those of the Sunni, Shi'a and Ibadi denominations. While both Sunni and Shi'ite (Shia) are divided into smaller sub-schools, the differences among the Shi'ite schools is considerably greater. Ibadites only follow a single school without divisions.
- Fatawa
While using court decisions as legal precedents and case law are central to Western law, the importance of the institution of fatawa (non-binding answers by Islamic legal scholars to legal questions) has been called "central to the development" of Islamic jurisprudence. This is in part because of a "vacuum" in the other source of Islamic law, qada` (legal rulings by state appointed Islamic judges) after the fall of the last caliphate the Ottoman Empire. While the practice in Islam dates back to the time of Muhammad, according to at least one source (Muhammad El-Gamal), it is "modeled after the Roman system of responsa," and gives the questioner "decisive primary-mover advantage in choosing the question and its wording."
- Arguments for and against reform
Each school (madhhab) reflects a unique urf or culture (a cultural practice that was influenced by traditions), that the classical jurists themselves lived in, when rulings were made. Some suggest that the discipline of isnad, which developed to validate hadith made it relatively easy to record and validate also the rulings of jurists. This, in turn, made them far easier to imitate (taqlid) than to challenge in new contexts. The argument is, the schools have been more or less frozen for centuries, and reflect a culture that simply no longer exists. Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions.
Early shariah had a much more flexible character, and some modern Muslim scholars believe that it should be renewed, and that the classical jurists should lose special status. This would require formulating a new fiqh suitable for the modern world, e.g. as proposed by advocates of the Islamization of knowledge, which would deal with the modern context. This modernization is opposed by most conservative ulema. Traditional scholars hold that the laws are contextual and consider circumstance such as time, place and culture, the principles they are based upon are universal such as justice, equality and respect. Many Muslim scholars argue that even though technology may have advanced, the fundamentals of human life have not.
Fields of jurisprudence
Schools of jurisprudence
Main article: MadhhabThere are several schools of fiqh thought (Arabic: مذهب maḏhab; pl. مذاهب maḏāhib)
The schools of Sunni Islam are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them. The Sunni schools (and where they are commonly found) are
- Hanafi (Turkey, Egypt, Balkans, Levant, Central Asia, South Asia, China, North Caucasus, and Tatarstan)
- Maliki (North Africa, West Africa, and Eastern Arabia)
- Shafi'i (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Kurdistan, Egypt, East Africa, Yemen, Kerala, and Maldives)
- Hanbali (Saudi Arabia); see Wahhabism
- Zahiri (minority communities in Morocco and Pakistan)
- Ahl al-Hadith
- Jariri, Laythi, Awza'i, Thawri, and Qurtubi no longer exist.
The schools of Shia Islam comprise:
- Ja'fari Twelver (Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Lebanon)
- Ja'fari Isma'ili (minority communities in India, Central Asia, Levant, Yemen, and Pakistan)
- Zaydi (minority communities in Yemen)
Entirely separate from both the Sunni and Shia traditions, Khawarij Islam has evolved its own distinct school.
These schools share many of their rulings, but differ on the particular hadiths they accept as authentic and the weight they give to analogy or reason (qiyas) in deciding difficulties.
The relationship between (at least the Sunni) schools of jurisprudence and the conflict between the unity of the Shariah and the diversity of the schools, was expressed by the 12th century Hanafi scholar Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi, who wrote: "Our school is correct with the possibility of error, and another school is in error with the possibility of being correct."
Influence on Western laws
Main article: Sharia: Classic Islamic lawA number of important legal institutions were developed by Muslim jurists during the classical period of Islam, known as the Islamic Golden Age. One such institution was the Hawala, an early informal value transfer system, which is mentioned in texts of Islamic jurisprudence as early as the 8th century. Hawala itself later influenced the development of the agency in common law and in civil laws such as the aval in French law and the avallo in Italian law.
The Waqf in Islamic law, which developed during the 7th–9th centuries, bears a notable resemblance to the trusts in the English trust law. For example, every Waqf was required to have a waqif (settlor), mutawillis (trustee), qadi (judge) and beneficiaries. The trust law developed in England at the time of the Crusades, during the 12th and 13th centuries, was introduced by Crusaders who may have been influenced by the Waqf institutions they came across in the Middle East.
In classical Islamic jurisprudence, litigants in court may obtain notarized statements from between three and twelve witnesses. When the statements of all witnesses are consistent, the notaries will certify their unanimous testimony in a legal document, which may be used to support the litigant's claim. The notaries serve to free the judge from the time-consuming task of hearing the testimony of each eyewitness himself, and their documents serve to legally authenticate each oral testimony. The Maliki school requires two notaries to collect a minimum of twelve eyewitness statements in certain legal cases, including those involving unregistered marriages and land disputes. John Makdisi has compared this group of twelve witness statements, known as a lafif, to English Common Law jury trials under Henry II, surmising a link between the king's reforms and the legal system of the Kingdom of Sicily. The island had previously been ruled by various Islamic dynasties.
Several other fundamental common law institutions may have been adapted from similar legal institutions in Islamic law and jurisprudence, and introduced to England by the Normans after the Norman conquest of England and the Emirate of Sicily, and by Crusaders during the Crusades. In particular, the "royal English contract protected by the action of debt is identified with the Islamic Aqd, the English assize of novel disseisin is identified with the Islamic Istihqaq, and the English jury is identified with the Islamic lafif." John Makdisi speculated that English legal institutions such as "the scholastic method, the licence to teach", the "law schools known as Inns of Court in England and Madrasas in Islam" and the "European commenda" (Islamic Qirad) may have also originated from Islamic law. The methodology of legal precedent and reasoning by analogy (Qiyas) are also similar in both the Islamic and common law systems. These influences have led some scholars to suggest that Islamic law may have laid the foundations for "the common law as an integrated whole".
See also
- Abdallah al-Harari
- Traditionalist theology
- Bahar-e-Shariat
- Glossary of Islam
- Index of Islam-related articles
- Ja'fari jurisprudence
- Outline of Islam
- List of Islamic terms in Arabic
- Ma'ruf
- Mizan – a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
- Palestinian law
- Schools of Islamic theology
- Sources of Islamic law
- The four Sunni Imams
- Urf
References
Notes
- for example, Sunni Hanbali scholar/preacher Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Barbahari (d.941) who ruled the streets of Baghdad from 921-941 CE, insisted that "whoever asserts that there is any part of Islam with which the Companions of the Prophet did not provide us has called them liars".
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Further reading
- Potz, Richard, Islamic Law and the Transfer of European Law, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2011. (Retrieved 28 November 2011.)
External links
- Media related to Islamic jurisprudence at Wikimedia Commons
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