Liaison office of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Al Sistani (L.M.H.L) in London, Europe, North and South America.
- Title
- Foreword to the Fourth Edition
- Translator’s Preface to the Third Edition
- Translator’s Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Transliteration
- Taqlīd
- - Following A Jurist (taqlid)
- Purification (Ṭaharah)
- - Unmixed (mutlaq) And Mixed (mudhaf) Water
- - 1. Kurr Water
- - 2. Qalil Water
- - 3. Flowing Water
- - 4. Rainwater
- - 5. Well Water
- - Laws Relating To The Different Types Of Water
- - Laws Relating To Emptying The Bowels And The Bladder
- - Clearing The Male Urethra Of Urine (istibra)
- - Recommended (mustahab) And Disapproved (makruh) Acts When Emptying The Bowels And The Bladder
- Impurities (najasat)
- - 1. And 2. Urine And Faeces
- - 3. Semen
- - 4. Corpse
- - 5. Blood
- - 6. And 7. Dog And Pig
- - 8. Disbeliever (kafir)
- - 9. Wine
- - 10. Sweat Of An Excrement-eating Animal
- - Ways Of Establishing Impurity (najasah)
- - How A Pure (tahir) Object Becomes Impure (najis)
- - Laws Of Impurities (najasat)
- Things That Purify An Impure Object (muahhirat)
- - 1. Water
- - 2. Earth
- - 3. The Sun
- - 4. Transformation (istialah)
- - 5. Change (inqilab)
- - 6. Transfer (intiqal)
- - 7. Islam
- - 8. Subsequence (tabaiyyah)
- - 9. Removal Of Intrinsic Impurity (ayn al-najasah)
- - 10. Istibra (40) Of An Excrement-eating Animal
- - 11. Absence Of A Muslim
- - 12. Flowing Out Of Blood [of A Slaughtered Animal] In A Normal Quantity
- - Laws Of Utensils
- Ablution (wudhu)
- - Immersive Ablution (al-wudhu al-irtimasi)
- - Recommended Supplication (dua) While Performing Wudhu
- - Conditions For The Validity Of Wudhu
- - Laws Of Wudhu
- - Things For Which One Must Perform Wudhu
- - Things That Invalidate Wudhu
- - Laws Of Jabirah Wudhu
- Obligatory (wajib) Ritual Bathing (ghusl)
- Laws Of Ritual Impurity (janabah)
- - Things That Are Unlawful (haram) For A Junub
- - Things That Are Disapproved (makruh) For A Junub
- - The Ghusl For Janabah
- - Sequential Ritual Bathing (al-ghusl Al-tartibi)
- - Immersive Ritual Bathing (al-ghusl Al-irtimasi)
- - Laws Of Performing Ghusl
- Irregular Blood Discharge (istihadhah)
- - Laws Of Istiadhah
- Menstruation (haydh)
- - Laws Of A Woman In Menstruation (ai)
- - Categories Of Women In Menstruation
- - 1. A Woman With A Habit Of Time And Duration
- - 2. A Woman With A Habit Of Time
- - 3. A Woman With A Habit Of Duration
- - 4. A Woman With A Disordered Habit (mudhtaribah)
- - 5. A Menarcheal Woman (mubtadiah)
- - 6. A Forgetful Woman (nasiyah)
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Haidh
- Lochia (nifas)
- The Ghusl For Touching A Corpse (mass Al-mayyit)
- The ghusl given to a corpse (mayyit)
- - Laws Relating To A Dying Person (muhtadhar)
- - Laws Relating To After Death
- - The Obligation To Give Ghusl, Shroud (takfin), Pray Over, Camphorate (tani), And Bury (dafn)
- - Method Of Performing The Ghusl Given To A Corpse (mayyit)
- - Laws Of Shrouding (takfin) A Corpse
- - Laws Of Camphorating (tani) A Corpse
- - Laws Of The Funeral Prayer (salat al-mayyit)
- - Method Of Performing Salat Al-mayyit
- - Recommended (mustahab) Acts Of Salat Al-mayyit
- - Laws Of Burial (dafn)
- - Recommended (mustahab) Acts Of Burial (dafn)
- - The Prayer Of Loneliness (alat Al-washah)
- - Exhumation Of A Grave
- Recommended (mustahab) Ghusls
- Dry Ablution (tayammum)
- - 1. Not Having Water
- - 2. Not Having Access To Water
- - 3. Using Water Is Harmful
- - 4. Hardship (araj) And Excessive Difficulty (mashaqqah)
- - 5. Needing Water To Quench Thirst
- - 6. Performing Wuu Or Ghusl Conflicts With Another Legal Responsibility That Is More Important Or Just As Important
- - 7. Shortage Of Time
- - Things With Which Performing Tayammum Is Valid (sahih)
- - Method Of Performing Tayammum In Place Of Wudhu Or Ghusl
- - Laws Of Tayammum
- Prayer (Salah)
- - Prayers
- - The Obligatory (wajib) Prayers
- - The Obligatory Daily Prayers
- - The Time For The Midday (dhuhr) And Afternoon (asr) Prayers
- - The Friday Prayer (salat al-jumuah) And Its Laws
- - Some Laws Concerning The Friday Prayer
- - The Time For The Prayer After Sunset (maghrib) And The Evening (isha) Prayer
- - The Time For The Morning (subh) Prayer
- - Laws Relating To The Time Of Prayers
- - Prayers That Must Be Performed In Order
- - Recommended (mustahab) Prayers
- - Timings For The Daily Supererogatory (nafilah) Prayers
- - The Ghufaylah Prayer
- - Rules Of Qibla
- - Covering The Body In Prayers
- - Conditions Of Clothing Worn By Someone Performing Prayers
- - Cases When It Is Not Necessary For The Body And Clothing Of Someone Performing Prayers To Be Pure
- - Things That Are Recommended (mustahab) For The Clothing Of Someone Performing Prayers
- - Things That Are Disapproved (makruh) For The Clothing Of Someone Performing Prayers
- - The Place Where Prayers Are Performed
- - Places Where Performing Prayers Is Recommended (mustahab)
- - Places Where Performing Prayers Is Disapproved (makruh)
- - Laws Of A Mosque
- - The Call To Prayer (adhan) And The Call To Stand For Prayer (iqamah)
- - Obligatory Components Of The Prayer
- - Intention (niyyah)
- - Takbirat Al-ihram
- - Standing (qiyam)
- - Recitation (qiraah)
- - Bowing (ruku)
- - Prostrating (sujud)
- - Things On Which Sajdah Is Permitted (jaiz)
- - Recommended (mustahab) And Disapproved (makruh) Acts Of Sajdah
- - Obligatory (wajib) Prostrations Of The Qur'an
- - Testifying (tashahhud)
- - Salutation (salam)
- - Sequence (tartib)
- - Close Succession (muwalah)
- - Qunut
- - Translation Of Prayers
- - Supplications After Prayers (taqibat)
- - Salawat
- - Things That Invalidate (mubtilat) Prayers
- - Things That Are Disapproved (makruh) In Prayers
- - Instances Of When It Is Permitted (jaiz) To Break An Obligatory (wajib) Prayer
- - Doubts That Arise In Prayers (shakkiyat)
- - Doubts That Invalidate Prayers
- - Doubts That Must Be Dismissed
- - Doubts That Are Valid (sahih)
- - Method Of Performing The Precautionary Prayer (alat Al-ihtiyat)
- - The Two Prostrations For Inadvertence (sajdata Al-sahw)
- - Method Of Performing Sajdata Al-sahw
- - Making Up (qadha) A Forgotten Sajdah
- - Omitting Or Adding Components Or Conditions Of The Prayer
- Prayers Of A Traveller
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On The Prayer Of A Traveller
- Lapsed (qadha) Prayers
- - Lapsed (qadha) Prayers Of A Father That Are Obligatory (wajib) On The Eldest Son
- Congregational Prayers (salat Al-jamaah)
- - Conditions Of The Imam Of Congregational Prayers
- - Rules Of Congregational Prayers
- - Duties Of The Imam And The Follower In Congregational Prayers
- - Things That Are Disapproved (makruh) In Congregational Prayers
- The Prayer Of Signs (salat Al-ayat)
- - Method Of Performing Salat Al-ayat
- The Eid Al-fitr (161) And Eid Al-adhha Prayers (162)
- Hiring Someone To Perform Prayers (166)
- Fasting (Sawm)
- - Fasting
- - Intention (niyyah)
- - Things That Invalidate (mubtilat) A Fast
- - Laws Of Things That Invalidate A Fast
- - Things That Are Disapproved (makruh) For A Fasting Person To Do
- - Times When It Is Obligatory (wajib) To Both Make Up (qadha) And Give Recompense (kaffarah)
- - Recompense (kaffarah) Of A Fast
- - Times When It Is Obligatory (wajib) To Only Make Up (qadha) A Fast
- - Laws Of A Lapsed (qadha) Fast
- - Laws Of Fasting For A Traveller
- - Those On Whom Fasting Is Not Obligatory (wajib)
- - Ways Of Establishing The First Of The Month
- - Unlawful (haram) And Disapproved (makruh) Fasts
- - Recommended (mustahab) Fasts
- - Times When It Is Recommended (mustahab) For One To Abstain From Things That Invalidate A Fast
- Spiritual Retreat (Iʿtikāf)
- - Spiritual Retreat (itikaf)
- - Conditions For The Validity Of Itikaf
- - Leaving The Place Of Itikaf
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Itikaf
- The One-Fifth Tax (Khums)
- - The One-fifth Tax (khums)
- - 1. Surplus Income From Earnings And Gains
- - 2. Mined Products
- - 3. Treasure Troves
- - 4. Lawful Property That Has Become Mixed With Unlawful Property
- - 5. Gems Acquired By Underwater Diving
- - 6. Spoils Of War
- - 7. Land That A Dhimmi Purchases From A Muslim
- - Distribution Of Khums
- Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil
- - Enjoining Good And Forbidding Evil
- Alms Tax (Zakat)
- - Alms Tax (zakat)
- - Conditions For Zakat To Become Obligatory (wajib)
- - Zakat Of Wheat, Barley, And Raisins
- - The Taxable Limit (niab) For Gold
- - The Niab For Silver
- - Zakat Of Camels, Cows, And Sheep
- - Zakat On Business Goods
- - Distribution Of Zakat
- - Criteria For Being Entitled (mustaiqq) To Receive Zakat
- - Intention (niyyah) For Giving Zakat
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Zakat
- The Fitrah Alms Tax (zakat Al-fitrah)
- - Distribution Of Zakat Al-fitrah
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Zakat Al-firah
- Hajj
- - Hajj (256)
- Buying and Selling
- - Buying And Selling
- - Recommended (mustahab) Acts Of Buying And Selling
- - Disapproved (makruh) Transactions
- - Unlawful (haram) Transactions
- - Conditions Relating To The Seller And The Buyer
- - Conditions Relating To The Commodity And The Payment In Exchange
- - The Transaction Formula (sighah)
- - Buying And Selling Fruit
- - Immediate Exchange (naqd) And Credit (nasiah) Transactions
- - Prepayment (salaf) Transaction And Its Conditions
- - Laws Relating To Prepayment (salaf) Transactions
- - Selling Gold And Silver For Gold And Silver
- - Cases When A Person Can Annul A Transaction
- - Miscellaneous Rulings
- Partnership (Shirkah)
- - Partnership (shirkah)
- Sulh
- - (Sulh)
- Hiring/Renting (Ijārah)
- - Hiring/renting (ijarah)(274)
- - Conditions For Property Given On Rent
- - Conditions Relating To The Use Of The Property Which Is Given On Rent
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Hiring/renting
- Sleeping Partnership (Mudharabah)
- - Sleeping Partnership (mudharabah)
- Reward (Juʿālah)
- - Reward (jualah)
- Sharecropping (Muzaraʿah)
- - Sharecropping (muzaraah)
- Tree Tending Contract (Musaqah) and Tree Planting Contract (Mugharasah)
- - Tree Tending Contract (musaqah) And Tree Planting Contract (mugharasah)
- Those Prohibited from Having Disposal over their Property
- - Those Prohibited From Having Disposal Over Their Property
- Agency (Wikalah)
- - Agency (wikalah)
- Loan (Qardh)
- - Loan (qardh)
- Transfer of Debt (Hawalah)
- - Transfer Of Debt (hawalah)
- Security (Rahn)
- - Security (rahn)
- Suretyship (dhaman)
- - Suretyship (dhaman)
- Surety for the Appearance of a Debtor (Kafalah)
- - Surety For The Appearance Of A Debtor (kafalah)
- Deposit (Wadīʿah) and Trust (Amanah)
- - Deposit (wadiah) And Trust (amanah)
- Gratuitous Loan (ʿĀriyah)
- - Gratuitous Loan (ariyah)
- Marriage
- - Marriage
- - The Marriage Contract
- - Method Of Saying The Marriage Contract Formula (sighah)
- - Conditions Of A Marriage Contract
- - Situations In Which A Man And A Woman Can Annul The Marriage Contract
- - Women With Whom Marriage Is Unlawful (haram)
- - Laws Of Permanent Marriage
- - laws Of Temporary Marriage (mutah)
- - Looking At Non-maram
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Marriage
- Breastfeeding
- - Breastfeeding
- - Conditions For Breastfeeding To Cause Someone To Become Mahram
- - The Etiquettes Of Breastfeeding
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Breastfeeding
- Divorce
- - Divorce
- - The Prescribed Waiting Period (iddah) Of A Divorce
- - The Iddah Of A Woman Whose Husband Has Died
- - Irrevocable (bain) And Revocable (rajei) Divorce
- - Laws Of Returning To One's Wife
- - Khul Divorce
- - Mubarah Divorce
- - Miscellaneous Rulings On Divorce
- Usurpation (Ghasb)
- - Usurpation (ghab)
- Found Property
- - Found Property
- Slaughtering and Hunting Animals
- - Slaughtering And Hunting Animals
- - Method Of Slaughtering An Animal
- - Conditions Of Slaughtering An Animal
- - Method Of Slaughtering A Camel
- - Recommended (mustahab) Acts When Slaughtering An Animal
- - Disapproved (makruh) Acts When Slaughtering An Animal
- - Laws Relating To Hunting With Weapons
- - Hunting With A Hunting Dog
- - Fishing And Hunting Locusts
- Eating and Drinking
- - Eating And Drinking
- - Etiquettes Of Eating
- - Things That Are Discouraged (mathmum) When Eating
- - Etiquettes Of Drinking
- - Things That Are Discouraged (mathmum) When Drinking
- Vow and Covenant
- - Vow (nathr) And Covenant (ahd)
- Oath (Qasam)
- - Oath (qasam)
- Charitable Endowment (Waqf)
- - Charitable Endowment (waqf)
- Will (Wasiyyah)
- - Will (wasiyyah)
- Inheritance (Irth)
- - Inheritance (irth)
- - Inheritance Of The First Group
- - Inheritance Of The Second Group
- - Inheritance Of The Third Group
- - Inheritance Of Husband And Wife
- - Miscellaneous Rules Of Inheritance
- Glossary
- Appendix 1: Table of Weights, Measures, Values, and Quantities
- Appendix 2: Biography of His Eminence al-Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani
- Appendix 3: List of Updated Rulings
- Works Consulted