Riba: status and types

This chapter brings together nine leaves of the fiqh encyclopedia devoted to riba and money exchange (sarf): the legal ruling on riba, its types, the commodities in which it occurs, the requirements of equivalence and taking possession, the interpretation of taking possession, the enumeration of ribawi commodities in the Maliki school, what is not ribawi, the wisdom behind forbidding riba of deferment in foodstuffs, and the cause of forbidding riba of surplus in dirhams and dinars. Each leaf cites its Quranic and prophetic evidence, the positions of the schools, and the classical references.

Parts of this section

• The ruling on riba (hukm al-riba)
• The interpretation of taking possession (qabd)