Judgment: status, litigants and admission

This chapter gathers the general principles of judgment (qada) and testimony (shahada) from the encyclopedia of fiqh: the licitness of testimony, the difference between the plaintiff (mudda'i) and the defendant (mudda 'alayh), the benefit of that distinction, the licitness of the claim and of acknowledgment, the probative force of acknowledgment, the difference between judgment and fatwa, then the status of judgment and the five cases of holding it, school by school, with the takhrij of the hadiths and the classical references.

Parts of this section

• The licitness of testimony in fiqh
• The difference between judgment (qada) and fatwa