The Book of Siyar

Question: If there is a misguided innovator in a town whose people are upon the truth, calling people to his innovation and misguidance, exerting himself in that, raising doubts for the common folk and deceiving them, constantly striving in that...

Question: What is the ruling on one who insults and curses ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Peace be upon him), or al-Zahrāʾ, or al-Ḥasan, or al-Ḥusayn (Peace be upon them)?

Question: Is it obligatory to denounce ghinā’ (singing/music), or not, because of the existence of disagreement regarding its prohibition?

Question: What is the ruling on enjoining right and forbidding wrong if the one who enjoins and forbids thinks, or knows, that if he does so he will be killed?

Question: Is it permissible for a Muslim to go abroad to Europe or America in order to obtain the money he needs for marriage, building a home, and so on, while he and his religion are frequently subjected there to...

Question: What is the wisdom in the prohibition of residing in the midst of the polytheists and unbelievers?

Question: Is Imamate a fundamental principle (aṣliyyah) or a subsidiary matter (farʿiyyah)? And is the consensus of the People of the Household (peace be upon them) that Imamate is restricted to the two descendent lines (al-baṭnayn) definitive (qaṭʿī) or conjectural...