Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh - He who is without Jurist
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh(Vol. 3)
He who is without Jurist
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
Translated by Bab Ul Qaim Publications
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruhū al-Faqīh, compiled by Shaykh al-Ṣadūq (Ibn Baḅawayh, d. 381 AH), is the second of the Four Main Shīʿī Ḥadīth collections and was expressly assembled as a practical handbook for any believer “who has no access to a jurist.” Unlike larger compendia, it presents each tradition succinctly—often omitting full chains of transmission—to focus squarely on the legal rulings and devotional practices essential to daily life. In its classical form it is a single work; modern printed editions typically span four volumes, comprising just under a thousand chapters arranged by topic.
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruhū al-Faqīh, compiled by Shaykh al-Ṣadūq (Ibn Baḅawayh, d. 381 AH), is the second of the Four Main Shīʿī Ḥadīth collections and was expressly assembled as a practical handbook for any believer “who has no access to a jurist.” Unlike larger compendia, it presents each tradition succinctly—often omitting full chains of transmission—to focus squarely on the legal rulings and devotional practices essential to daily life. In its classical form it is a single work; modern printed editions typically span four volumes, comprising just under a thousand chapters arranged by topic.
1Chapters on Legal Cases and Rulings
Chapter 1
5 AḥadīthChapter on Those to Whom Judgment is Permissible and Those to Whom it is Not Permissible
Chapter 2
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Categories of Judges and the Methods of Ruling
Chapter 3
2 AḥadīthChapter on Avoiding Judgments
Chapter 4
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Dislike of Sitting with Judges in Their Gatherings
Chapter 5
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Dislike of Receiving Payment for Judging
Chapter 6
1 ḤadīthChapter on Injustice in Judgment
Chapter 7
2 AḥadīthChapter on Error in Judgment
Chapter 8
1 ḤadīthChapter on Compensation for judges' Errors
Chapter 9
2 AḥadīthChapter on Agreement Upon Two Just Individuals in Judgment
Chapter 10
10 AḥadīthChapter on the Etiquettes of Judgment
Chapter 11
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Obligation to Adhere to the Apparent Ruling
Chapter 12
13 AḥadīthChapter on Legal Stratagems in Rulings
Chapter 13
2 AḥadīthChapter on Legal Restriction and Bankruptcy
Chapter 14
1 ḤadīthChapter on Intercessions in Rulings
Chapter 15
6 AḥadīthChapter on Imprisonment Due to the Implementation of Rulings
Chapter 16
13 AḥadīthChapter on Reconciliation
Chapter 17
1 ḤadīthChapter on Justice
Chapter 18
37 AḥadīthChapter on Whose Testimony Must Be Rejected and Whose Testimony Must Be Accepted
Chapter 19
2 AḥadīthChapter on Judging by the Testimony of One Witness and the Oath of the Claimant
Chapter 20
2 AḥadīthChapter on Judging by the Testimony of Two Women and the Oath of the Claimant
Chapter 21
4 AḥadīthChapter on Establishing Testimony Based on Knowledge Without Formal Witnessing
Chapter 22
5 AḥadīthChapter on Refraining From Testimony, What Has Been Mentioned About Establishing it, Emphasizing it, and Concealing it
Chapter 23
9 AḥadīthChapter on False Testimony and What Has Been Reported Regarding it
Chapter 24
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Invalidation of the claimant's Right by Administering an Oath Even if They Have Evidence
Chapter 25
1 ḤadīthChapter on Judging by Reversing the Oath and the Invalidation of the Right Due to Refusal
Chapter 26
3 AḥadīthChapter on Judging by Administering an Oath to the Claimant Against the Deceased After Presenting Evidence
Chapter 27
1 ḤadīthChapter on Judgment in All Claims
Chapter 28
2 AḥadīthChapter on Testimony Against a Woman
Chapter 29
3 AḥadīthChapter on Invalidating Testimony Regarding Injustice, Usury, and Contradiction to the Sunnah
Chapter 30
8 AḥadīthChapter on Testimony Based on Testimony
Chapter 31
3 AḥadīthChapter on Precaution in Giving Testimony
Chapter 32
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Testimony of the Executor for the Deceased Who Has a Debt
Chapter 33
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Prohibition of Reviving Rights Through False Testimonies
Chapter 34
3 AḥadīthChapter on Miscellaneous Matters Related to Testimonies
Chapter 35
14 AḥadīthChapter on Pre-Emption
Chapter 36
7 AḥadīthChapter on Agency
Chapter 37
12 AḥadīthChapter on Judgment by Lot
Chapter 38
10 AḥadīthChapter on Guarantee
Chapter 39
2 AḥadīthChapter on Judgment Regarding the Flood of the Mahzur Valley
Chapter 40
2 AḥadīthChapter on Judgment Regarding the Enclosure Between Two Houses
Chapter 41
2 AḥadīthChapter on Judgment Regarding Sheep Grazing in a Cultivated Field
Chapter 42
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Ruling Regarding Reserved Areas
Chapter 43
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Ruling of Forcing a Man to Provide for His Relatives
Chapter 44
6 AḥadīthChapter on Claims That Are Accepted Without Evidence
Chapter 45
2 AḥadīthChapter of Rarities
Chapter 46
23 AḥadīthChapter on Emancipation and Its Rulings
Chapter 47
13 AḥadīthChapter on Conditional Emancipation (tadbir)
Chapter 48
25 AḥadīthChapter on the Contract of Manumission (mukataba)
Chapter 49
13 AḥadīthChapter on the Allegiance of the Freed Slave
Chapter 50
8 AḥadīthChapter on Mothers of Offspring
Chapter 51
13 AḥadīthChapter on Freedom
Chapter 52
6 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding the Child of Adultery and the Foundling
Chapter 53
12 AḥadīthChapter on Absconding Slaves
Chapter 54
11 AḥadīthChapter on Apostasy
Chapter 55
9 AḥadīthChapter on Miscellaneous Matters Related to Emancipation
2Book of Livelihood
Chapter 1
113 AḥadīthChapter on Livelihoods, Earnings, Profits, and Professions
Chapter 2
38 AḥadīthChapter on Debt and Loan
Chapter 3
34 AḥadīthChapter on Trade, Its Etiquettes, Virtues, and Jurisprudence
Chapter 4
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Marketplace
Chapter 5
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Reward of Supplication in Marketplaces
Chapter 6
2 AḥadīthChapter on Supplication When Purchasing Goods for Trade
Chapter 7
2 AḥadīthChapter on Supplication When Purchasing Animals
Chapter 8
7 AḥadīthChapter on Conditions and Options in Sales
Chapter 9
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Separation That Concludes a Sale, Whether it is by Physical Departure or Verbal Agreement
Chapter 10
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Ruling of a Balanced Partnership Agreement Between Two Men with a Known Condition and a Specified Term
Chapter 11
89 AḥadīthChapter on Sales
Chapter 12
15 AḥadīthChapter on the Sale of Pasture, Crops, Trees, Lands, Servants, Water Rights, and Real Estate
Chapter 13
14 AḥadīthChapter on Reviving Barren Lands and Properties
Chapter 14
27 AḥadīthChapter on Sharecropping and Leasing
Chapter 15
3 AḥadīthChapter on Liability for Those Who Take Payment for Repairing Something but Cause Damage Instead
Chapter 16
14 AḥadīthChapter on the Liability of One Who Carried Something and Claimed Its Loss
Chapter 17
20 AḥadīthChapter on Advance Payment in Food, Animals, and Other Goods
Chapter 18
21 AḥadīthChapter on Hoarding and Pricing
Chapter 19
1 ḤadīthChapter on Judgment in the Dispute Between Buyer and Seller
Chapter 20
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Obligation to Return the Sold Item Due to the Option of Inspection
Chapter 21
1 ḤadīthChapter on Announcing the Sale of Goods
Chapter 22
1 ḤadīthChapter on Selling in the Shade
Chapter 23
1 ḤadīthChapter on Selling Milk Mixed with Water
Chapter 24
3 AḥadīthChapter on Defrauding the Unaware Buyer
Chapter 25
3 AḥadīthChapter on Kindness and Avoiding Deception in Sales
Chapter 26
3 AḥadīthChapter on Intercepting Trade Goods
Chapter 27
41 AḥadīthChapter on Usury (riba)
Chapter 28
4 AḥadīthChapter on Barter and Transaction with Immediate Buyback (inah)
Chapter 29
11 AḥadīthChapter on Currency Exchange and Its Forms
Chapter 30
18 AḥadīthChapter on Lost Property and Stray Animals
Chapter 31
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Falls Under the Ruling of Lost Property
Chapter 32
17 AḥadīthChapter on Gifts
Chapter 33
4 AḥadīthChapter on Borrowing (ariyyah)
Chapter 34
7 AḥadīthChapter on Deposits (wadi'ah)
Chapter 35
27 AḥadīthChapter on Pledging (rahn
Chapter 36
116 AḥadīthChapter on Hunting and Slaughtering
Chapter 37
37 AḥadīthChapter on Eating and Drinking From Gold and Silver Utensils and Other Etiquettes of Eating
Chapter 38
63 AḥadīthChapter on Oaths, Vows, and Expiations
3Book of Marriage (nikah)
Chapter 1
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Beginning of Marriage and Its Origin
Chapter 2
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Types of Marriage
Chapter 3
6 AḥadīthChapter on the Virtue of Marriage
Chapter 4
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Superiority of the Married Person Over the Unmarried Person
Chapter 5
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Affection for Women
Chapter 6
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Abundance of Goodness in Women
Chapter 7
2 AḥadīthChapter on One Who Avoids Marriage Due to Fear of Poverty
Chapter 8
2 AḥadīthChapter on One Who Marries for the Sake of Allah {swt}, the Almighty, and to Uphold Family Ties
Chapter 9
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Categories of Women
Chapter 10
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Blessing and Omen of a Woman
Chapter 11
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Recommended and Praiseworthy Traits and Characteristics of Women
Chapter 12
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Blameworthy Traits and Characteristics of Women
Chapter 13
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Admonition Regarding Women
Chapter 14
1 ḤadīthChapter on Marrying a Woman for Her Wealth, Beauty, or Religion
Chapter 15
6 AḥadīthChapter on Compatibility in Marriage
Chapter 16
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Recommended Supplications and Prayers for One Who Intends to Marry
Chapter 17
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Time When Marriage is Disliked
Chapter 18
12 AḥadīthChapter on the Guardian, Witnesses, Proposal, and Dowry
Chapter 19
2 AḥadīthChapter on Scattering Gifts and the Wedding Ceremony
Chapter 20
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Wedding Feast (walimah)
Chapter 21
1 ḤadīthChapter on What a Man Should Do When His Wife is Brought to Him
Chapter 22
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Times When Intercourse is Disliked
Chapter 23
1 ḤadīthChapter on Saying the Name of Allah {swt} Before Intercourse
Chapter 24
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Permissible Duration for Abstaining From Intercourse for One Who Has a Young Free Wife
Chapter 25
79 AḥadīthChapter on What Allah {swt}, the Almighty, Has Made Permissible and Prohibited in Marriage
Chapter 26
5 AḥadīthChapter on Cases in Which Marriage is Invalidated
Chapter 27
1 ḤadīthChapter on Separation Between Husband and Wife Due to the Demand for Dowry
Chapter 28
4 AḥadīthChapter on a Child Being Between Both Parents - Who Has More Right to Custody
Chapter 29
6 AḥadīthHapter 125 - Chapter on the Age at Which Children Should No Longer Be Touched Affectionately or Carried, and the Obligation to Separate Them in Their Beds
Chapter 30
2 AḥadīthChapter on Legal Marital Protection (ihsan)
Chapter 31
12 AḥadīthChapter on the husband's Rights Over His Wife
Chapter 32
14 AḥadīthChapter on the wife's Rights Over Her Husband
Chapter 33
1 ḤadīthChapter on Coitus Interruptus (ʿazl)
Chapter 34
4 AḥadīthChapter on Protective Jealousy
Chapter 35
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Punishment of a Woman for Practicing Magic on Her Husband
Chapter 36
3 AḥadīthChapter on Ensuring the Absence of Pregnancy in Bondwomen (istibra)
Chapter 37
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Slave Marrying Without His master's Permission
Chapter 38
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Man Who Buys a Bondwoman While She is Pregnant and Then is Intimate with Her
Chapter 39
2 AḥadīthChapter on Marrying Two Bondwomen Sisters at the Same Time
Chapter 40
1 ḤadīthChapter on How a Man Marries His Male Slave to His Bondwoman
Chapter 41
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Free Woman Marrying Herself to a Slave Without the Permission of His Masters and the Dislike of Marrying a Bondwoman Owned by Two Partners
Chapter 42
26 AḥadīthChapter on the Rulings Regarding Male Slaves and Female Bondwoman
Chapter 43
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Dhimmi Man Marrying a Dhimmi Woman and Then Both Converting to Islam
Chapter 44
34 AḥadīthChapter on Temporary Marriage (mutʿah)
Chapter 45
43 AḥadīthChapter on Miscellaneous Matters
Chapter 46
1 ḤadīthChapter on Supplication for Seeking Offspring
Chapter 47
26 AḥadīthChapter on Breastfeeding
Chapter 48
1 ḤadīthChapter on Congratulating for the Birth of a Child
Chapter 49
22 AḥadīthChapter on the Virtue of Children
Chapter 50
21 AḥadīthChapter on Aqiqah, Tahnik, Naming, Kunyah, Shaving the newborn's Head, Piercing the Ears, and Circumcision
Chapter 51
8 AḥadīthChapter on the State of believers' Children Who Pass Away
Chapter 52
4 AḥadīthChapter on the State of the Children of Polytheists and Disbelievers Who Pass Away
Chapter 53
8 AḥadīthChapter on Disciplining and Testing a Child
4Book of Divorce (talaq)
Chapter 1
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Types of Divorce
Chapter 2
17 AḥadīthChapter on Divorce According to the Sunnah
Chapter 3
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce of an Absent Person
Chapter 4
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Divorce by a Young Boy
Chapter 5
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce by an Insane Person
Chapter 6
14 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce of a Woman Who Has Not Been Consummated and the Ruling on a Woman Whose Husband Passes Away Before or After Consummation
Chapter 7
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce of a Pregnant Woman
Chapter 8
10 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce of a Woman Who Has Not Reached Menstruation, One Reached Menopausal Age, One with Irregular Menstruation, and One with Uncertain Menstruation
Chapter 9
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Divorce of a Mute Person
Chapter 10
1 ḤadīthChapter on Secret Divorce
Chapter 11
2 AḥadīthChapter on Women Who Can Be Divorced in Any Condition
Chapter 12
7 AḥadīthChapter on Giving the Choice (to the wife)
Chapter 13
1 ḤadīthChapter on Mutual Dissolution of Marriage (mubaraʾah)
Chapter 14
1 ḤadīthChapter on Marital Rebellion (nushuz)
Chapter 15
4 AḥadīthChapter on Marital Discord (shiqaq)
Chapter 16
4 AḥadīthChapter on Divorce by Mutual Consent (khul)
Chapter 17
2 AḥadīthChapter on Oath of Abstinence (ila)
Chapter 18
25 AḥadīthChapter on Zihar (declaring one's Wife Unlawful Like a mother)
Chapter 19
8 AḥadīthChapter on Mutual Cursing (li'an)
Chapter 20
16 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce by a Slave
Chapter 21
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce by a Sick Person
Chapter 22
6 AḥadīthChapter on the Divorce of a Missing Person
Chapter 23
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Terms: Khaliyah, Bariah, Batta, Bain, and Haram in Divorce
Chapter 24
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Ruling Regarding an Impotent Husband
Chapter 25
32 AḥadīthChapter on Miscellaneous Matters
Chapter 26
37 AḥadīthChapter on Recognizing the Major Sins for Which Allah {swt}, the Almighty, Has Threatened with Hellfire
