Fatwas Archive

Question: If the two disputants agree upon an arbitrator to resolve the dispute between them, is it permissible for one of them to reject the judgment issued by the arbitrator if it does not please him, or not?

Question: Is it valid and permissible for the two disputants to mutually agree between themselves to revoke a judgment that has been issued concerning their dispute, and then for the dispute and quarrel to start anew?

Question: If the judge comes to know, from the speech of one of the two disputants – through his innuendo, evasion, and lack of desire to end the dispute – that he wants to prolong the case and multiply its...

Question: If two men bring their case before one of the people of knowledge and appoint him to judge between them with the ruling of Allah regarding what lies between them of disagreement, but their problem is subtle and hidden,...

Question: If the two disputants say to the judge, “Judge between us with the ruling of Allah,” and the matter over which the dispute has arisen is from the issues of ijtihād, does he then judge according to his own...

Question: Two men disputed, and one of them said: “I am retracting what I had previously forgiven you of debts.” Is his retraction in that valid or not?

Question: The statement of the scholars of the madhhab that reconciliation upon denial is not valid has been problematic for us, and so has their statement in the chapter of judiciary that it is recommended for the judge to urge...

Question: If a man becomes bankrupt and incurs many debts, while in his hand are some goods that do not cover even a quarter of his debt, and his guardians and relatives want to have interdiction (ḥajr) imposed upon him,...

Question: Among the members of a tribe there may be something they call “al-ṣuḥb” in our land. It consists of obligations and covenants among them to support one another and cooperate, with their persons and their wealth, regarding whatever calamities...

Question: It is said that the prevailing ʿurf (custom) is acted upon in the Sharīʿah so long as it does not contradict a text; meaning that the judge rules in accordance with it, and it is said regarding it that...