Fatwas Archive

Question: A man was killed and left one son and four daughters. Then the son insisted on exacting retribution from the killer of his father, and in that he needs to incur expenses. Is it permissible for him to take...

Question: Is it permissible to testify to an acknowledgment and the like, heard by telephone and the like, or not?

Question: Is the testimony of those who differ in madhhab, some of them against others, accepted or not?

Question: Is it obligatory to call witnesses for the divisions of inheritance between brothers and the like? Or is it sufficient to specify and for the scribe to write his name, given that he is the one who divided (the...

Question: If the claimant does not know how to formulate a legal claim, may the judge order someone to ask him about what is in his mind and about his story with his opponent, and then, once he understands his...

Question: May the judge accept, after taḥjīr, evidence (bayyinah) from one of the two disputants?

Question: If a judgment has been issued between two disputants, or reconciliation has taken place between them concerning a matter, then after that a further reconciliation and mutual agreement on that same matter occur, and this latter reconciliation contains some...

Question: If reconciliation and mutual satisfaction have taken place between two disputants concerning a matter, and each of them has been content with what they reconciled upon, and each has fully waived every right and claim, then after that one...

Question: A man bought a piece of land from another man, and the buyer built a wall around it. Then a third man, known for frequent quarrelling and disputation, came and claimed to the buyer that he has a share...

Question: Is it permissible for a man to take revenge and requite one who harms him and persists in harming him, by imposing fines upon him – that he fabricate against him lawsuits and claims, bring him into court proceedings,...