The Book of Siyar

Question: An employee in the army works at the border between two states. He takes the utmost care to avoid wronging anyone or assisting in the oppression of anyone; indeed, he often helps those who are trying to evade (the...

Question: Is it permissible for a merchant to import goods from outside the country and then, by his own choice, pay the customs and fees, and so on?

Question: What is the ruling regarding what is paid in customs duties and taxes to a just or unjust state? Does a Muslim incur sin by paying that, given that what he pays is not from the Islamic taxes, and...

Question: Do the rebels (al-bughāt), the Khārijites, and the oppressors own what they have taken, just as the disbelievers own what they have taken from the Muslims?

Question: Is it permissible to assist an oppressor in acts of good, projects of righteousness, and to accept his rewards and compensations for that, or not?

Question: There are two innovating factions, each of them calling to its own innovation, and fighting has taken place between them. However, one of the two factions is closer to the truth than the other. Is it permissible to assist...

Question: Is it permissible to seek the help of an oppressor to recover a right? And is it permissible to assist the person who has the right in doing that?

Question: Very often circumstances call for honouring an open sinner (fāsiq) and one who disbelieves by misinterpretation (kāfir al-taʾwīl), and sitting with him, and perhaps he requests supplication (duʿā’). To leave honouring him, or to leave sitting with him, or...

Question: What is the ruling on initiating the greeting of salām for oppressors and open sinners? And what is the ruling on returning their salām if they initiate it?

Question: What is the definition of the sorcerer (sāḥir), the soothsayer (kāhin), and the astrologer (munajjim) whom it is not permissible to visit, as in the ḥadīth: “Whoever goes to a soothsayer…” etc.? And does this include the man who...