Discover the meaning of the term Al-khlṭaau (خلْطَةُ) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readIt is the partnership, and it is of two types: First: The mixing of physical assets, which is when the partnership is in physical assets. Second: The mixing of attributes, which is when the wealth of each of the two partners is distinct, then they mix them and share in a number of attributes such as the resting place, shelter, pasture, watering place, milking place, breeding male, and shepherd. - And the mixture has an effect according to some jurists in the completion of the livestock nisab and the calculation of zakat, the details of which are in «Zakat». - And the mixture: a state that is lifted after the claim is directed against the defendant. Or it is: the combination of the nisab of a type of livestock belonging to two or more owners regarding what makes its zakat obligatory as if it were owned by a single person. «Sharh Hudud Ibn Arafah 1/146, 612, and Al-Mawsu'ah Al-Fiqhiyyah 4/319».
A shared undivided nisab (threshold), or a distinct yet unified one in limited matters.
The mixing of properties belonging to multiple individuals, then the name of partnership was given to the contract even if no mixing took place ... Partnership and it is of types: * Shirkat mufawada: that the two partners are equal in wealth, disposition, religion, and each of them is an agent for the other in disposition and a guarantor for him regarding the rights resulting from it. General partnership * Shirkat inan: it is valid with the equality of wealth and difference in profit, with the difference in wealth and equality in profit, and with the difference in the wealth of each of the two partners from the other.