Applying customary practice (ʿurf) in the Sharīʿah
Question: The tribes have customary practices (aʿrāf) by which they recognize one another and conduct their dealings; what is the ruling of the Sharīʿah regarding these customs?
Total available fatwas: 896
[Ruling on insurance for goods and for life]
Question: Insurance is a newly arisen issue; what is the ruling of the sharīʿah concerning it?
[The ruling on what insurance companies take on goods]
Question: I buy goods from Egypt, then ship them by boat to Yemen, and there are insurance companies which guarantee the arrival of the goods to Yemen and undertake to guarantee what is diminished of the goods due to sinking,...
[Retraction from an undertaking]
Question: Three brothers undertook (to perform) ḥajj on behalf of their mother, then after a time she took her share of inheritance from her husband – one-eighth – and the three brothers are poor, while their mother is still alive....
[The ruling on al-shamlan (comprehensive assumption) for oneself, one’s children, and the tribe]
Question: Among what occurs nowadays and in earlier times in agreements or sales contracts, or in a reconciliation agreement, or in an undertaking, or the like, is that the elder of the household, who acts on their behalf, or the...
[A contractor paid money to the bank so that it would guarantee him]
Question: A man contracted a large project from some party, and that party requested from the man a bank guarantee on him. The contractor went to the bank and asked it to guarantee him to that party; the bank agreed,...
[A man ordered another to sell in a market and undertook whatever loss he incurred]
Question: A man said to another: “Sell and buy in such-and-such place, and I undertake for you whatever loss you incur in your trade,” and the guarantor had a purpose in this undertaking, namely to strengthen that market. Is it...
[Some of what it is permissible for the agent to conceal]
Question: A man has money with another, with which the latter buys and sells. When the owner of the money wanted to pay the zakāt, he said to his agent: “Take five hundred thousand riyāls from my partner so-and-so as...
[Appointing a man to sell at a set price, and he sells for more – may he take the extra?]
Question: If a man orders another man, or appoints him as his agent, to sell a commodity for twenty, for example, and he sells it for twenty-five, is it permissible for the man (agent) to take the extra five for...
[The ruling on compensations when they are issued in the names of other people]
Question: In this time, compensations and aids have been given after the war and during the war. Some people may go to the authorities and obtain something of that, but they register their application in the names of other people...