Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory

by Duncan Black MacDonald

25. Of deposits (wadi‘a).

Book VII. Of Inheritance and Wills

1. Of legal heirs (warith).

2. The conditions and proportions of inheritance (farida).

3. Of legacies (wasiya).

Book VIII. Of Marriage and Related Subjects

1. The conditions of marriage (nikah). What women a man may see and to what extent.

2. The form of a legal marriage.

3. The conditions of asking (khitba) and giving in marriage; whom a man may not marry; conditions for nullity of marriage.