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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
This fourth and final part of the chapter on the pillars of delegation (wakala) covers delegation in the most sensitive contracts of fiqh: marriage, divorce, khul' and taking the wife back, then in litigation and its conditions according to the Malikis, in acknowledgment (iqrar), in permissible property, in hajj and umra, in leading prayer, in prayer and in fasting, before closing with oaths, vows, division between wives and acts of disobedience. Each question is presented with the exact positions of the four schools, their scriptural proofs from the Quran and the Sunna, their figures and their classical references cited in parentheses.