Book of Claims (Kitāb al-Daʿāwā

Question: If the claimant does not know how to formulate a legal claim, may the judge order someone to ask him about what is in his mind and about his story with his opponent, and then, once he understands his...

Question: May the judge accept, after taḥjīr, evidence (bayyinah) from one of the two disputants?

Question: If a judgment has been issued between two disputants, or reconciliation has taken place between them concerning a matter, then after that a further reconciliation and mutual agreement on that same matter occur, and this latter reconciliation contains some...

Question: If reconciliation and mutual satisfaction have taken place between two disputants concerning a matter, and each of them has been content with what they reconciled upon, and each has fully waived every right and claim, then after that one...

Question: A man bought a piece of land from another man, and the buyer built a wall around it. Then a third man, known for frequent quarrelling and disputation, came and claimed to the buyer that he has a share...

Question: Is it permissible for a man to take revenge and requite one who harms him and persists in harming him, by imposing fines upon him – that he fabricate against him lawsuits and claims, bring him into court proceedings,...

Question: Does the judge act, in establishing a right, by the fingerprint or not?

Question: What is the legal ruling in the Sacred Law on acting upon fingerprints?

Question: What is the ruling on baṣā’ir (written deeds) whose scribe and witnesses have died? Is acting upon them valid or not?