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3. Of pledging (rahn).
4. Of those who are not to be permitted to administer their own property (hajar as-safih).
5. Of bankruptcy and composition and common rights in a highway (sulh).
6. The conditions for the transfer of debts and credits (hawala).
7. Of security for debts (daman).
8. Of personal security for debts (kafala).
9. Of partnership (shirka).
10. Of agency (wakala).
11. Of confession (iqrar).
12. Of loans (i'ara).
13. Of illegal seizure and use of property; indemnity for it and its damage (ghasb).
14. Of right of pre-emption (shuf'a).
15. The conditions of advancing capital with participation in the profits (qirad).
16. Of the letting of date-palms and vines (musaqat).
17. Of hiring a thing out (ijara).
18. Of reward for return of a thing lost (ja'ala).
19. That land may not be let for a fixed amount of its produce (mukhabara).
20. Of irrigation of waste lands (ihya al-mawat).
21. Of foundations in mortmain (waqf).
22. Of gifts (hiba).
23. Of found property (luqta).
24. Of foundlings (laqit).
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.

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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.
4. The settlement (mahr) on a wife by her husband.
5. On the wedding feast (walima).
6. On the equality of the rights of the wives and the authority of the husband.
7. On divorce for incompatibility (khul).
8. The forms of divorce (talaq).
9. On taking a wife back and the three-fold divorce.
10. The oath not to cohabit (ila).
11. The temporary separation by the formula, zihar Qur. 58.
12. The form of accusation of adultery and the defence (li'an).
13. The period during which a previously married woman cannot remarry (idda).
14. Of relations with female slaves.
15. The support and behavior of a woman, divorced or a widow; mourning.
16. Law of relationship through suckling (irda).
17. The support (nafaqa) due to a wife.
18. The support due to children and parents, slaves and domestic animals.
19. Of the custody of children (hidana).

Book IX. Of Crimes of Violence to the Person (jinaya)

1. On murder, homicide and chance medley.
2. The lex talionis (qisas) for murder, and
3. For wounds and mutilations.
4. The blood-wit (diya).
5. Use of weak evidence in case of murder.
6. Personal penance for homicide.

Book X. Of Restrictive Ordinances of God (hadd)

1. Of fornication (zina) of one who has been or is married (muhsan), and of one who has not been or is not married.

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