Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Jurisprudence and Its Principles

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Translator's Introduction
• Editor's Note
• The Principles of Jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh)
• Introduction
• The Principles of Jurisprudence
• The Sources of Jurisprudence
• The Qur’an
• The Sunnah
• Consensus
• Reason
• A Brief History
• The Subjects of the Principles
• The Binding Testimony of the Qur’an's Apparent and Accepted Realities (zawahir)
• The Apparent and Accepted Realities (zawahir) of the Sunnah
• The Single Report (khabar al-wahid)
• Unification and Preference
• Issues Common to the Book and the Sunnah
• The Discussion of Imperatives (awamir)
• The Discussion of Negative Imperatives (naw ahi)
• Discussion of Generalities and Particularities (aam wa khas)
• Unconditional (mutlaq) and Conditional (muqayyad)
• The Discussion of the Tacit (mafahim)
• The Abstract (mujmal) and the Clear (mubayyan)
• The Abrogator (nasekh) and the Abrogated (mansukh)
• Consensus and Reasoning
• Consensus
• Acquired Consensus and Narrated Consensus
• Reasoning
• The 'Principles of Application'
• Notes
• Jurisprudence (fiqh)
• Introduction
• The Word Jurisprudence (fiqh) in the Qur’an and the Traditions
• The word jurisprudence (fiqh) in the terminology of the 'ulema
• Two Types of Law
• Types of Obligation
• Brief History of Jurisprudence and Jurisprudents
• The Shi'ite Jurisprudents
• Brief History of Jurisprudence and JurisPrudents (2)
• Summary and Review
• The Sections and Chapters of the Issues of Jurisprudence
• Worship
• Contracts ('oqud)
• The Book of Buying and Selling (kitab ul-bay'i)
• The Book “Rahn”
• The Book of the Bankrupt (muflis)
• The Book of Prohibition (hajr)
• The Book of Liability (diman)
• The Book of Peace (sulh)
• The Book of Partnerships (sharikat)
• The Book of the Partnership of Capital and Labor (mudarabah)
• The Book of Agricultural Partnerships (mazaro'at and musaqat)
• The Book of Trusts (wadiy'ah)
• The Book of Lending (ariyah)
• The Book of Hire (ijareh)
• The Book of Representatives (wakalah)
• The Book of Endowments and Charity (waqf and sadaqat)
• The Book of Temporary Endowments (sukna and habs)
• The Book of Giving (hebat)
• The Book of Wagers (sabq and rimayah)
• The Book of Wills (wasiyat)
• The Book of Marriage (nikah)
• Unilateral Instigations (iyqa'at)
• The Book of Divorce (talaq)
• The Book of Divorce Wholly or Partly Instigated by the Wife (khul'a and mabarat)
• The Book of Illegal Divorce (zahar)
• The Book of Vows of Abstention (Iyl'a)
• The Book of Cursing (l'aan)
• The Book of Freeing (itq)
• The Book of Acquiring Freedom through Will, by Purchase and Through Relationship (Tadbir, mukatibeh and istilad)
• The Book of Confessing (iqrar)
• The Book of Reward (ja'alah)
• The Book of Vows (ayman)
• The Book of Taking an Oath (nathr)
• Laws
• The Book of Hunting and Slaughtering (sayd and thibh)
• The Book of Eating and Drinking
• The Book of Mis-Appropriation (ghasb)
• The Book of Right of Preference (shaf'ih)
• The Book of Enlivening the Dead (ihiya al'muwt)
• The Book of Finds
• The Book of Inheritance
• The Book of Arbitration (qaza)
• The Book of Testimony
• The Book of Punishments (hudud and t'azirat)
• The Book of Retaliation (qisas)
• The Book of Financial Recompense (diyah)
• Notes
• Translator's Epilogue