Ibadah Fiqh Doctrines

An Analysis of the Ijtihadi Method of Imam Khomeini and Grand Jurist Ayatollah Khoei with Emphasis on the Book 'Al-Khilal Fi Al-Salah' (The Deficiencies in Prayer)

Hasan Delavari; kazem Ibrahimzadeh Bakhtabad

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 5-30

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2024.5988.1189

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Analyzing the Ijtihadi method (Islamic juristic/ Islamic legal reasoning), especially in a comparative manner, is one of the modern, efficient, and popular research methods in the current ... Read More Analyzing the Ijtihadi method (Islamic juristic/ Islamic legal reasoning), especially in a comparative manner, is one of the modern, efficient, and popular research methods in the current academic community. Based on this, the present research is specifically aimed at explaining the ijtihad method of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khu’i, as well as clarifying the way in which these two Islamic jurists have derived legal rulings. The present research, using an analytical and descriptive method, has inductively studied the book of al-Khalal fi al-Salat (Arabic:الخلل فی الصلاه) by Imam Khomeini and the discussions on al-Khalal fi al-Salat in the encyclopedia of Muhaqqiq Khoei . By extracting the method of each of these two scholars through the analysis and comparison conducted, it has been determined that their process and utilization of jurisprudential and usuli (principles of jurisprudence) rules in the method of deriving rulings are different from each other, although the outcome of the fatwa (legal opinion) is often the same. The focal point in the process of derivation in the comparative method of Ayatollah Khu’i is the focus on the rule and the application of the rule. By rule, it is meant broadly encompassing usuli (principles of jurisprudence), fiqhi (jurisprudential), and rijali (relating to the science of narrators) rules. And the purpose of focusing on its application (of the rule) is a decisive and completely clear commitment to its result and adherence to the exact(essential/core) outcome. While the central point in the analytical method of Imam Khomeini (RA) in the process of deriving rulings (istinbāṭ) is attention to all rules and striving to combine them, and finding a way, through this combination, to issue fatwas (legal opinions) on religious matters. The findings of the research indicate that Imam Khomeini predominantly has employed the analytical method, while Ayatollah Khu’i predominantly has used the comparative method. It is not the case that each of these two jurists exclusively(completely) relied on one specific method.

Explaining the Methods of Utilizing Technically Weak Narrations in the Process of Deriving Islamic Rulings on Acts of Worship

Fatemeh Ansari

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 31-58

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2025.6432.1200

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In the process of deriving Islamic legal rulings utilizing the valuable collection of hadiths plays a significant role. This role is even more pronounced/more prominent in the ... Read More

Studying the Islamic Jurisprudential Consequences of Interpolation (ادراج Idraj) and the Method of Islamic Jurists' dealing with it in the Hadiths of Fiqh al-'Ibadah

Sayyed Ali Delbari

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 59-82

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2025.1582.1037

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Interpolation( Arabic: ادراج Idraj( in the text of a hadith means mixing the words of the narrator with the words of the infallible (peace be upon him;Imam), which has long been ... Read More

Analysis of the Vow to Give All Possessions as Charity from the Perspective of Imāmiyyah jurisprudence

Faramarz Fakhr Ma’ani; Morteza Rahimi

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 83-110

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2025.6107.1193

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The Sacred Lawgiver has observed giving wealth to others as charity for the sake of drawing closer to God a commendable act; therefore, giving wealth as charity can be the object of ... Read More

Re-Examination of the Evidence for the Islamic Ruling on the Intentional Retention of Ritual Impurity (Janabah) until Dawn in the Month of Ramadan

alborz Muhaqqiq Garfami; Sayyed Ali Sajadizadeh; Ahmad Morvarid

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 111-140

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2024.6000.1190

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One of the branches of Islamic jurisprudential issues for which there are conflicting narrations is the matter of intentionally remaining in a state of ritual impurity (Arabic: ... Read More One of the branches of Islamic jurisprudential issues for which there are conflicting narrations is the matter of intentionally remaining in a state of ritual impurity (Arabic: جنابت janabah) until the dawn call to prayer (Arabic: اذان adhan) during the holy month of Ramadan. Faced with these (conflicting) narrations, Islamic jurists ( pl. : fuqahāʾ, Arabic: فقیه; pl. : فقهاء ) have adopted various approaches. This research, utilizing a descriptive-analytical method and drawing upon documentary sources, seeks to review the Quranic, narrational, and jurisprudential arguments in the views of Islamic jurists and presents a novel inference from the totality of verbal evidences. To achieve this goal, after categorizing the narrations, the views of the Islamic jurists are critically studied by presenting five approaches. The selected perspective is based on the conceptual understanding of "deliberation" ("ta'ammud" include cases where a person knows that if they sleep, they will not wake up until the Adhan, and yet they still sleep) in the narrations and finding a narration that serves as a unifying proof to resolve the contradiction between the reports. Based on this interpretation (i.e., the conceptual analysis of intention" and finding a reconciling narration), there is no need to interpret some narrations as taqiyyah (Arabic: تقیه dissimulation due to fear of persecution), disregard some narrations, or prefer some over others. All narrations play a role in the process of jurisprudential inference. The evaluation of the paper is that the lack of deliberate intention in achieving ritual purity ( Arabic: طهارة tahara) until the dawn call to prayer, which arises from situations such as falling asleep due to fatigue or unaware the passage of time, will not invalidate the fast. In cases where a person intentionally delays achieving ritual purity until the morning Adhan, in addition to the obligation of making up the fast ( Arabic: قَضَىqadaʾ)), they will also be obligated to abstain from eating or drinking for the rest of that day (Arabic: امساکImsak) and pay expiation (Arabic: کفاره Kaffarah).

Analytical Examination of Shia Narrations and Jurisprudential Opinions on the Legitimacy of Children's Acts of Worship

Hamid Reza Yaghmaei; Sayyed Ali Sajjadizadeh

Volume 4, Issue 6 , July 2023, Pages 141-162

https://doi.org/10.30513/jwd.2025.6010.1191

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Shia Jurists (Arabic: فقهاfuqaha) regard puberty one of the general conditions for the Islamic religious obligation. In this context, a debate arises concerning discerning children ... Read More

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An Analysis of the Ijtihadi Method of Imam Khomeini and Grand Jurist Ayatollah Khoei with Emphasis on the Book 'Al-Khilal Fi Al-Salah' (The Deficiencies in Prayer)

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Explaining the Methods of Utilizing Technically Weak Narrations in the Process of Deriving Islamic Rulings on Acts of Worship

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Studying the Islamic Jurisprudential Consequences of Interpolation (ادراج Idraj) and the Method of Islamic Jurists' dealing with it in the Hadiths of Fiqh al-'Ibadah

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Analysis of the Vow to Give All Possessions as Charity from the Perspective of Imāmiyyah jurisprudence

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Re-Examination of the Evidence for the Islamic Ruling on the Intentional Retention of Ritual Impurity (Janabah) until Dawn in the Month of Ramadan

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Analytical Examination of Shia Narrations and Jurisprudential Opinions on the Legitimacy of Children's Acts of Worship

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