Hiba: offer, acceptance and formula

The hiba (donation) is the gratuitous transfer of ownership of a property to another person. The sheets below set out its rules: the offer (ijab) and the acceptance (qabul), the hand-to-hand delivery without words (mu'ata), the prohibition of attaching the donation to a condition or a term, the two special forms known as the umra and the ruqba, and finally the binding nature of the contract through taking possession (qabd). Each point is established from the positions of the four schools and the evidence of the Quran and the Sunna.

Parts of this section

• By what is the offer of the donation made valid?
• Limitation by a third party's life