The Book of Wills
1. The Will and What it Must Consist of
2. The Witness for the Will
3. A Man Makes a Will and Appoints an Executor but he Refuses to Accept it
4. The Owner is more Rightful to his Property as Long as he is Living
5. Making a Will for the Heir
6. The Matters for which one can Make a Will and what is Preferable in the Issue
7. Another Chapter
8. A Man Makes a Will, then Cancels it
9. If the Beneficiary of a Will dies before the Death of the Testator or before Taking Possession
10. Executing the Will as it Requires
11. Another Chapter
12. Another Chapter
13. A Will for Setting free Slaves, Charity or al-Hajj
14. The Executor of the Will must Correct the Possible Violation of the Law in the Will
15. An Executor of the Will is held Responsible for Changing a Lawful Will
16. Al-Mudabbar (the Slave for whose Freedom Death of the Master is a Condition) is from One Third of the Legacy
17. First the Shroud, then Debts, then Will is paid for from the Legacy
18. The Will and Debts
19. One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted
20. The Will about a Contracted Slave
21. The Will of Immature Boys and Girls, the Lawful and Unlawful Matters in it
22. Will in Favor of Mothers of Children
23. The Matters Permissible in Endowment, Charity, Gift, Present, Providing Conditional Housing and Matters Permissible or otherwise for a Child and others
24. The Will for a Part of One’s Assets
25. The Will about Something of One’s Legacy
26. The Will about a Share of One’s Legacy
27. One in His Illness Confesses His Indebtedness to One of his Heirs
28. When certain ones of the Heirs Confirm Freeing of a Slave or Debts
29. The Case of One Who Leaves very Little Legacy with a Larger Amount of Debt and Dependents
30. Another Chapter
31. The Adults whose Will is not Acceptable
32. Distribution of What is Bequeathed To Relatives
33. The Case of one who Makes a Bequest for an Adult with whom a Child must Share
34. The Case of One’s Appointing Two Executors for the Will, Each of whom Deals with a Certain Portion of the Legacy
35. Charities of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, Fatimah and ‘A’immah, ‘Alayhim al-Salam
36. Things that Reach a Deceased after his Death
37. The Rare Ahadith
38. The Case of One who Dies without a Will, Leaves behind Small Heirs and it is Sold upon Him
39. The Executor of the Will Hands over the Assets of Children who were Small, now Adults, but they Refuse to Take Charge, the Children who Become Adults but are not Found to be of Proper Understanding, the Limit of Adulthood
The Book of Inheritance
1. The Ordained Shares
2. The Legacy Comes from the Share of the One Nearest in Relationship to Him and that the Owner of Ordained Share is more Deserving than those who do not have any Ordained Share
3. Obligations are not Fulfilled without the Sword
4. The Rare Ahadith
5. Invalidity of Deficiency (in the Ordained Shares)
6. Another Chapter on Invalidity of al-‘Awl (deficiency or excess) and the Ordained Shares are not more than Six
7. Knowing to Avoid Deficiency
8. With the Existence of a Child and Parents no one Else Inherits Except a Husband and Wife
9. The Reason Why Ordained Shares are not more than Six
10. The Reason Why a Male’s Share is Twice the Share of a Female
11. The Legacy is Just for the Eldest Son
12. The Share of Children from the Legacy
13. The Share of Grandchildren in the legacy
14. Inheritance of Parents
15. Inheritance of Parents with Brothers and Sisters from the Father and Brothers and Sisters from the Mother
16. The Inheritance of a Son with both Parents
17. Inheritance of the Son, with Husband and Woman and Both Parents
18. Inheritance of Parents with Husband and Wife
19. AI-Kalalah (Burdensome one’s in Inheritance)
20. Inheritance of Brothers and Sisters with Children
21. Inheritance of the Grandfather
22. Brothers from a Mother with the Grandfather
23. Son of a Brother with a Grandfather
24. Inheritance of Relatives
25. A Woman Leaves Behind Just her Husband
26. A Deceased Leaves behind Just his Wife
27. Women do not Inherit Anything from Real Property
28. Dispute of Man and Woman over Household Items
29. The Rare Ahadith
30. Inheritance of a Boy and a Girl who are not yet Mature
31. The Inheritance of a Married and Mature Female before going to Bed
32. Inheritance of Women Divorced during Illness or without Illness
33. Inheritance of Relatives with Mawali
34. Inheritance of People Drowned and because of the Collapse of a Structure on them
35. Inheritance of People Killed, those who Inherit and those who do not Inherit from the Wergild
36. The Inheritance of a Killer
37. Inheritance of People of other Religions
38. Another Chapter on Inheritance of People of other Religions
39. The Inheritance of the People of Religion among them according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Holy Prophet
40. If a Deceased Leaves Behind Muslim and non-Muslim Heirs
41. Inheritance of Slaves
42. The Free and Slaves do not Inherit each other
43. Deceased leaves Behind One Free and One Owned Heir
44. Another Chapter
45. The Inheritance Due to Special Contract
46. Inheritance of an Apostate
47. Inheritance of One who is Lost
48. Inheritance of the Crying Newborn Child
49. Inheritance of Hermaphrodite
50. Another Chapter
51. Another Chapter
52. Another Chapter
53. Inheritance of the Child of Parents who Condemn Each other (al -Mula‘anah (condemnation))
54. Another Chapter about the Child of Mula‘anah (condemnation)
55. Another Chapter
56. Inheritance of a Child from Fornication
57. Another Chapter
58. Another Chapter
59. The Case of a Child Carried away from his Birthplace ( al-Hamil )
60. Confirming of Certain Heir a Debt
61. Another Chapter
62. One who Dies without Leaving Behind any Heirs
63. Another Chapter
64. The Guardianship of One who Sets One Free
65. Guardianship of Sa’ibah (Unconditionally Freed Slave)
66. Another Chapter
The Book of Legal Penalties
The Book of Compensations
The Book of Testimony
1. The First Certificate that was Written on Earth
2. The Case of Man who is Summoned to Testify
3. Hiding the Testimony
4. The Case of a Man who hears a Testimony but does not Witness it
5. The Case of a Man who Forgets his Bearing Testimony but Recognizes his Handwriting
6. False Testimony
7. The Case of One who Testifies, then Retracts it
8. The Case of the Testimony of One Person and the Oath of the Plaintiff
9. Another Chapter
10. Presenting Testimony for the Creditors
11. Testimony of Children
12. Testimony of Slaves
13. That which is Acceptable of the Testimony of Women and that, which is not Acceptable
14. Testimony of Woman for her Husband and the Testimony of Man for his Wife
15. Testimony of a Father for his Son or a Son’s Testimony for his Father and Testimony of a brother for his Brother
16. Testimony of a Business Partner, one Wageworker and the Executor of the Will
17. The Witnesses who are Rejected
18. The Testimony of an Accuser and an Ex-convict
19. Testimony of the Members of all other Nations
20. Another Chapter
21. Testimony of a Blind and Speechless
22. A Man Bears Testimony against a Woman without Looking at Her Face
23. The Rare Ahadith
The Book of Adjudication and Rules
1. The Authority to Govern Rests with the Imam Only
2. Kinds of Judges
3. The Case of one who Judges by Means of what is other than what Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has Revealed
4. One Who Issues Fatwa is Responsible
5. Accepting a Bribe for Issuing Judgments
6. Committing Injustice in Issuing a Judgment
7. The Undesirability of Sitting near the Unjust Judges
8. The Undesirability of Taking a case before the Unjust Judges
9. Adjudication Disciplines
10. Judgments must be Issued on the Basis of Testimony and Oath
11. Establishing Testimony is on the Plaintiff and Oath is on the Defendant
12. Complaint against a Deceased
13. One who Does not have Testimony, then Oath is Turned on Him
14. One who has Testimony there is no Oath on Him
15. If one Agrees with an Oath that is Taken, it Dismisses his Claim even if he has Testimony
16. The Case of Two People who Claim for Something Each one with Testimony
17. Another Chapter
18. Another Chapter
19. The Rare Ahadith
The Book of Oaths, Vows and Expiations
1. The Undesirability of Swearing
2. The False Oath
3. Another Chapter
4. An Oath is not Valid except by Allah, One who does not Agree with Allah is not of Allah
5. The Detestability of Swearing in the form of Denouncing Allah and His Messenger, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause
6. Kinds of Swearing
7. The Binding Consequence of Oath and Vows
8. The Meaningless Matters
9. The Case when one Takes an Oath, then Finds something Better
10. The Intention for an Oath
11. Tne must Take an Oath only for what He Knows
12. The Oath that Obligates one to Pay Expiation
13. Making an Exception in an Oath
14. It is not Permissible to take an Oath by anything other than by Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious
15. Making the People of the Book to take Oath
16. Kaffarah (expiation) for Swearing
17. Forming a Commitment
18. The Rare Ahadith