The types of oaths (ymyn)

An oath (ymyn) is swearing by Allah, by one of His names or one of His attributes, over a past or future matter, with a fixed formula. The jurists of the four schools settled its definition, its types, its concluding formulas and the ruling on its expiation; the following gathers those rules from the encyclopedia of the four madhhabs.

Parts of this section

• The legislation of the oath
• The ta'lil counts as a condition