Essentiality of custom ('urf/'adat) in issuing fatwa (Ifta'): a special reference to Ibn Abidin's Sharh Uqud Rasm al-Mufti

• Main Author: Ali, Mohammed Farid
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Institut Pengurusan dan Penyelidikan Fatwa Sedunia (INFAD), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) 2016
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP174 The Practice of Islam; KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/50729/4/50729_Essentiality%20of%20custom.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/50729/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Muftis not always are aware of their people’s custom (‘urf/adat) and this at times result their fatwa not to be at par with the challenges of the developing societies. This paper emphasizes the importance of custom in shari‘ah, essentiality of its knowing for the jurists/muftis, and its essentiality...