Conditions of partners and capitals

This first part presents the conditions (shurut) of the partnership of capitals (shirkat al-amwal) according to the four Sunni schools. After a note on authorization, it covers the conditions of the two contracting parties and of the capital, then the rules on the proportion of profit and loss, the mixing of capitals, their presence, and the acts a partner may perform on the company's capital without his partner's authorization. School positions are sourced in the classical fiqh collections cited in parentheses, and the hadiths and reports are given with their transmission.

Parts of this section

• Second: the conditions of the two contracting parties
• Sixth requirement: knowledge of the amount of the capitals