Concerning Alms

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Letter from the General Editor iii
3. About this Paperback iv
4. Contents vii
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Introduction xvii
8. A Note on the Text xxv
9. Notes to the Introduction xliii
10. The Epistle on Legal Theory
11. In the name of God, merciful and compassionate 3
12. Chapter on the Modalities of Legislative Statements 11
13. Chapter on the First Kind of Legislative Statement 14
14. Chapter on the Second Kind of Legislative Statement 15
15. Chapter on the Third Kind of Legislative Statement 17
16. Chapter on the Fourth Kind of Legislative Statement 17
17. Chapter on the Fifth Kind of Legislative Statement 19
18. Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book as Unrestricted, and Intended as Unrestricted, but Also Partly Restricted 29
19. Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Combines the Unrestricted and the Restricted 30
20. Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Is Intended in Its Entirety as Restricted 31
21. Chapter on the Category of Statements in Which Context Indicates the Meaning 33
22. The Category in Which the Wording Indicates the True Meaning Rather Than the Apparent Meaning 34
23. Chapter on What Is Revealed as Unrestricted and Which Prophetic Practice in Particular Indicated Is Intended as Restricted 35
24. Explanation of God’s Imposition in His Book of the Obligation to Follow the Practice of His Prophet 39
25. The Obligation from God to Obey the Prophet, Paired with Obedience to God and Mentioned Separately 41
26. Chapter on God’s Command to Obey God’s Emissary 43
27. Chapter on God’s Statement to His Creation Concerning Having Obliged His Emissary to Follow What Was Revealed to Him; The Evidence He Gave Concerning His Emissary’s Following What He Was Commanded to Do, His Emissary’s Being Guided, and His Emissary’s Guidance of Those Who Follow Him 45
28. The Beginning of Abrogation 50
29. Abrogation Indicated Partly by the Book and Partly by Prophetic Practice 54
30. Chapter on the Obligation to Pray That the Book and Then Prophetic Practice Indicate to Be Obviated by Reason of an Excuse; and Concerning Him Whose Prayer Is Not Counted as Disobedience 56
31. Abrogation Indicated by Prophetic Practice and Consensus 64
32. Chapter on Obligations That God Revealed in the Form of Explicit Texts 68
33. Obligations Established by Explicit Texts and in Regard to Which God’s Emissary Provided a Parallel Practice 72
34. Obligations Established by Explicit Texts in Regard to Which Prophetic Practice Indicates That He Intended Something Restrictive 74
35. Obligations Expressed in General Terms 78
36. Concerning Alms 82
37. Concerning the Pilgrimage 85
38. Concerning Waiting Periods 86
39. Concerning Women Unlawful to Marry 87
40. Concerning Unlawful Kinds of Food 89
41. Concerning That from Which Widows Must Abstain during the Waiting Period 90
42. Chapter on Problems Affecting Hadith-Reports 91
43. Another Instance of Abrogation 106
44. Another Instance 108
45. Another Instance 111
46. Another Instance of Legal Disagreement 117
47. Inconsistency in Narration in a Way That Differs from What Preceded 120
48. Another Instance Considered Contradictory, but Not by Us 122
49. Another Instance Considered a Case of Legal Disagreement 126
50. Another Instance of Legal Disagreement 128
51. Concerning the Major Washing for Friday Prayer 131
52. Prohibition for a Reason Indicated by a Reason Given in Another Hadith-Report 133
53. Prohibition for a Reason That Is Clearer Than That in the Preceding Discussion 136
54. Prohibition for a Reason Resembling the Preceding Discussion in One Way, and Differing from It in Another 137
55. Another Chapter 142
56. An Instance That Resembles the Preceding Point 144
57. Description of God’s and His Emissary’s Prohibitions 146
58. Chapter on Knowledge 151
59. Chapter on the Uncorroborated Report 156
60. Authority Confirming the Uncorroborated Report 168
61. Chapter on Consensus 197
62. Chapter on the Confirmation of Analogical Reasoning and Legal Interpretation; When Analogizing Is Necessary and When Not; Who May Perform Analogies 199
63. Chapter on Legal Interpretation 205
64. Chapter on Subjective Reasoning 212
65. Chapter on Legal Disagreement 239
66. Chapter on Inheritance Shares 249
67. Chapter on the Disagreement over the Grandfather 251
68. Opinions of the Companions 254
69. The Status of Consensus and Analogy 255
70. Notes 257
71. Glossary of Names and Terms 287
72. Bibliography 306
73. Further Reading 312
74. Index of Qurʾan Passages 315
75. Index 317
76. About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 335
77. About the Translator 336
78. The Library of Arabic Literature 337