Book of Lease (Ijārah)

Question: A man took from the debtor’s maḥjar the shares of four liable parties—namely his own share and the shares of three of his sons. After some time, the man wanted to divide those four portions among his three sons...

Question: Does the fusḥah (concession of space) practiced by the people of our lands entail ownership?

Question: If a man has trees in a piece of land, and the water of that land flows to another man’s farm, and all of that has been acknowledged; then a third man comes and claims that he is entitled...

Question: Does a man own the place from which he extracted stones by blasting?

Question: A frequently recurring incident is that people in these lands have hastened to revive tracts of land and to sell and buy them, and there are roads that pass through these demarcated plots which people habitually use to go...

Question: An agreement and contract were concluded between two men that one of them would work in the other’s land: he would dig, purchase equipment, seeds, and trees, plow, clear the land, and irrigate—on the basis that whatever benefits result...

Question: A war broke out in a region where there are car showrooms; owners display their cars in those markets and pay the market owner a rental for that. Due to the severity and continuation of the war, the showroom...

Question: A man rented gas cylinders in order to transport gas in them from Ma’rib to Ṣa‘dah during wartime, and the owner of the cylinders was aware of the dangers that occur along the route. The rented cylinders then came...

Question: If a man and the owner of a car agree that he will work with it and what is earned will be split half-and-half, then the car overturns and suffers damage; afterwards the driver leaves it where it overturned...

Question: If a man contracts to build a house, a school, or the like, and then the building suffers ruin due to war, a flood, or similar causes before the sub-contractor (al-mutaqāwil) delivers it to its owners—who is liable: the...